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Chapter 2. Multinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade
Antràs, Pol; Yeaple, Stephen R. - In: Handbook of international economics : Volume 4, (pp. 55-130). 2014
This chapter reviews the state of the international trade literature on multinational firms. This literature addresses three main questions. First, why do some firms operate in more than one country while others do not? Second, what determines in which countries production facilities are...
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Globalization, Job Tasks and the Demand for Different Occupations
Heyman, Fredrik - 2020
Globalization has increased in recent decades, resulting in structural changes of production and labor demand. This paper examines how the increased global engagement of firms affects the structure of the workforce. We find that the aggregate distribution of occupations in Sweden has become more...
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The relationship between FDI and exports : based on the activities of foreign affiliates
Bak, Ga-Hee; Lee, Hongshik; Lee, Joon-Hyung - In: Journal of international trade & commerce 18 (2022) 5, pp. 51-70
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Foreign Direct Investment, Global Value Chains, and Labor Rights : No Race-to-the-Bottom?
McLaren, John; Im, Hyejoon - 2021
In a stylized model of multinational firms choosing host locations for their global value chains, host-country governments choose the strength of collective-bargaining rights that allow their workers to receive a share of the resulting quasi-rents. Each government must trade off the direct...
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Do foreign-owned firms provide better working conditions than their domestic counterparts? : a comparative analysis
Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro S.; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2010
This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ from those in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate the consensus in the empirical literature by applying a standardised methodology to firm-level data for three...
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Do Foreign-Owned Firms Provide Better Working Conditions Than Their Domestic Counterparts? A Comparative Analysis
Hijzen, Alexander - 2010
This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ from those in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate the consensus in the empirical literature by applying a standardised methodology to firm-level data for three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136272
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Do Foreign-Owned Firms Provide Better Working Conditions than Their Domestic Counterparts? A Comparative Analysis
Hijzen, Alexander - 2010
This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ from those in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate the consensus in the empirical literature by applying a standardised methodology to firm-level data for three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136721
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Host Country Characteristics and Agglomeration in Foreign Direct Investment
Braunerhjelm, Pontus - 2020
By combining unique data on Swedish multinationals with industry data for 18 countries, the influence of host country characteristics on the location of foreign production is analysed. Particular attention is directed towards agglomeration tendencies in firms' location. The sample selection...
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Anti-migration as a threat to internationalization? : a review of the migration-internationalization literature
Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2018
Does anti-migration sentiment threaten internationalization? One major pro-Brexit argument was that it would enable more control over immigration. The most recent US presidential election also focused on immigration. Anti-migration sentiment could be a threat to internationalization, given that...
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The Effect of FDI on Child Labor
Davies, Ronald B.; Voy, Annie - 2007
This paper examines the extent to which foreign direct investment (FDI) affects child labor. Using 1995 data for 145 … countries, we find that, contrary to common fears, FDI is negatively correlated with child labor. This effect, however …, disappears when controlling for per capita income. After doing so, we find no robust effect of either FDI or international trade …
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