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The Labor Market Effects of Offshoring by U.S. Multinational Firms : Evidence from Changes in Global Tax Policies
Kovak, Brian - 2017
Estimating the causal effect of offshoring on domestic employment is difficult because of the inherent simultaneity of …. Underlying these results is substantial heterogeneity based on offshoring margin and firm organizational structure. For example …
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Global production with export platforms
Tintelnot, Felix - 2014
Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates for the majority of their foreign sales. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinational firms' location and production decisions and the welfare implications of multinational...
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Employment protection and investment opportunities
Loderer, Claudio; Waelchli, Urs; Zeller, Jonas - 2016
We examine the impact of employment protection legislation (EPL) on individual firms' growth opportunities, as measured by Tobin's q. On the one hand, by increasing job security, EPL spurs innovation effort. Yet that boost only occurs in firms with little comparative advantage at original...
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The effects of wrongful discharge protection on foreign multinationals : evidence from transaction-level data
Kandilov, Ivan T.; Senses, Mine Zeynep - In: The Canadian journal of economics 49 (2016) 1, pp. 111-146
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The reallocation of employment and the role of employment protection legislation
Burgess, Simon M. - 1994
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The asymmetric effects of tariffs on intra-firm trade and offshoring decisions
Díez, Federico J. - 2010
-South theoretical framework, I show that higher Northern tariffs reduce the incentives for outsourcing and offshoring, while higher … Southern tariffs have the opposite effects. I also show that increased offshoring and outsourcing imply an increase in the …. -- Intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; outsourcing tariffs …
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U.S. Multinational Affiliate Exports from Developing Countries
Shatz, Howard J. - 2004
Globalization of production is one of the dominant issues of the international economy. This paper explores how country characteristics influence the choice of developing country export bases by US multinationals. It separately analyses two types of exports by affiliates, exports to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029226
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U.S. Multinational Affiliate Exports from Developing Countries
Shatz, Howard J. - 2004
Globalization of production is one of the dominant issues of the international economy. This paper explores how country characteristics influence the choice of developing country export bases by U.S. multinationals. It separately analyzes two types of exports, exports to the headquarters country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014086213
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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2010
We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the …. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI …
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Do multinationals influence labor standards? : a close look at US outward FDI
Wacker, Konstantin; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of multinational corporations on labor standards. We argue that the previous literature has failed to distinguish the different motives that encourage firms to become multinational. Therefore, we build a stylized model of segmented labor markets with...
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