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Evaluating the Causal Effects of Foreign Acquisition on Domestic Skilled and Unskilled Wages
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of the takeover of a domestic establishment by foreign owners on the domestic target's development of wages for skilled and unskilled workers. We pay particular attention to identifying the causal effect, using a propensity score matching approach combined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319688
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Wage inequality, linkages and FDI
Driffield, Nigel L.; Girma, Sourafel; Henry, Michael; … - 2010
This paper extends the existing literature on FDI and wage inequality. We do this in two ways. Firstly, we incorporate more precise measures of inward investment into the model, by allowing for differences in the effects between horizontal and vertical FDI. Secondly, after establishing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937244
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Productivity and the Internationalization of Firms – Cross-Border Acquisitions Versus Greenfield Investments
Trax, Michaela S. - 2011
This paper extends the literature on the determinants of international activity at the firm level towards cross-border acquisitions and greenfield investments as different modes of FDI using a rich dataset of British firms. While multinational firms are characterized by higher productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125224
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Domestic Multinationals, Foreign Affiliates, and Labour Demand Elasticities
Godart, Olivier - 2012
Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in the wage elasticity of labour demand persists...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096440
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Foreign Direct Investment, Spillovers and Absorptive Capacity : Evidence from Quantile Regressions
Girma, Sourafel - 2016
This paper focuses on the role of absorptive capacity in determining whether or not domestic firms benefit from productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments located at different quantiles of the productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991322
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Productivity and the internationalization of firms : cross-border acquisitions versus greenfield investments
Trax, Michaela - 2011
Unternehmen im Vergleich zu exportierenden Unternehmen. In Übereinstimmung mit Nocke und Yeaple (2007) hält dieses … produktivsten Firmen getätigt werden, werden diese Investitionen in den übrigen Industrien von Unternehmen am unteren Rand der … Produktivitätsverteilung der international aktiven Unternehmen durchgeführt. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124247
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Technology Gaps, Inward Investments and Productivity of European Firms
Castellani, Davide; Zanfei, Antonello - 2015
Using a balanced panel of firm-level data on the manufacturing industry in France, Italy and Spain over the 1993-1997 period, this paper examines the impact of foreign presence on the productivity of domestic enterprises. We innovate on existing literature by using firm-level data comparable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127815
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Foreign Direct Investment, Spillovers and Absorptive Capacity : Evidence from Quantile Regressions
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2008
This paper focuses on the role of absorptive capacity in determining whether or not domestic establishments benefit from productivity spillovers from FDI. We analyse this issue using establishment level data for the electronics and engineering sectors in the UK. We distinguish the effect of FDI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030888
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Immigrant heterogeneity and the earnings distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : new evidence from a panel data quantile regression analysis
Billger, Sherrilyn M.; Lamarche, Carlos - 2010
In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153565
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Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis
Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2010
In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136720