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Immigrant employment and the contract enforcement costs of offshoring

Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Karpaty, Patrik; Kneller, Richard; … - In: Review of World Economics 160 (2024) 3, pp. 953-981

Offshoring continues to be an important dimension of firms’ internationalization choices. However, offshoring also … this paper, we investigate the role of immigrant employees within firms on firm offshoring, employing rich administrative … their bilateral offshoring. Our results support the hypothesis that immigrant employees increase offshoring by lowering …

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Which Boats are lifted by a Foreign Tide? Direct and Indirect Wage Effects of Foreign Ownership

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Kersting, Erasmus - In: Journal of International Business Studies 50 (2019), pp. 923-947

The attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) is considered to be of particular importance for emerging economies because it represents a channel through which international convergence in standards of living may be achieved. One important effect of FDI is its impact on wages, both within...

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Application of Oli-Paradigm of German FDI Inflows in Turkey

Ilgün, Erkan; Tatic, Kasim - In: Economic Review: Journal of Economics and Business 10 (2012) 2, pp. 29-40

Foreign direct investment (FDI) plays a pivotal role in economic development. Most important advantages of this are new technology, management ability, marketing ability and modern know-how. However, the literature dealing specifically with the issue of German direct investments in Turkey is...

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Global sourcing, firm size and export survival

Bandick, Roger - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 14 (2020) 2020-18, pp. 1-29

This paper investigates how firm size and global sourcing affect the export surviving probabilities. By using data on export and import transactions disaggregated by destination/origin for the entire Danish manufacturing firms between the period 1995-2006, the author is able to classify the...

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Minimum Wages and Firm Exports: Evidence from Vietnamese Manufacturing Firms

Nguyen, Dong Xuan - In: East Asian Economic Review (EAER) 25 (2021) 1, pp. 99-121

This paper investigates the relationship between the minimum wage and firm's export behavior by using firm-level data of Vietnamese manufacturing enterprises over the period 2010 through 2015. In this regard, I apply the logistic regression model for the probability of exporting and the...

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Globalization and shadow economy: A panel analysis for Africa

Ajide, Folorunsho M.; Dada, James Temitope - In: Review of Economics and Political Science (REPS) 9 (2024) 2, pp. 166-189

Purpose - The study's objective is to examine the relevance of globalization in affecting the size of the shadow economy in selected African nations. Design/methodology/approach - To do this, the authors employ the KOF globalization index and implement both static and dynamic common correlated...

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Immigrant workers and firm resilience on the export market

Marchal, Léa; Sabbadini, Giulia - In: Review of World Economics 159 (2022) 4, pp. 1013-1047

This paper studies whether firms employing immigrant workers are more resilient to an increase in competition in their export markets. Exploiting the surge of Chinese imports following its accession to the World Trade Organization and using a sample of French manufacturing exporters from 2002 to...

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Estimating the effect of AfCFTA on intra-African trade using augmented GE-PPML

Fofack, Hippolyte; Dzene, Richman; Mohsen Hussein, Omar A. - In: Journal of African Trade 8 (2021) 2, pp. 62-76

This paper draws on a general equilibrium poisson pseudo maximum likelihood model augmented by a dynamic capital accumulation to estimate the effects of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) on intra-African trade flows. The empirical results show that the AfCFTA could raise...

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The effect of trade liberalization on inter-industry wage difference in Indonesia's manufacturing sector

Watekhi, Watekhi; Nachrowi, Nachrowi D. - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-12

This study analyzes the effect of trade liberalization on wage inequality through industry wage premiums in Indonesia's manufacturing sector between 2000 and 2015, a period marked by low import tariffs. The study was undertaken by adopting a two-stage estimation approach. Using the national...

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The United States-China trade war: Timeline, consequences, and prospects for the US economy ; an analysis based on the textile industry

Stawasz‑Grabowska, Ewa; Wieloch, Justyna - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 26 (2023) 1, pp. 147-170

In this paper, we investigate the scale of the drop in American imports after it imposed punitive tariffs on Chinese goods. Our analysis spans the whole period of Donald Trump's presidency (January 2017 - January 2021). In contrast to existing studies, which are mainly devoted to the impact of...

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