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investment (FDI) policy reform on employment and wages. The so-called negative investment list regulates FDI at the highly …
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We analyze the effect of rising protectionism towards foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic employment … manufacturing sector to these investment restrictions. Rising FDI restrictions caused employment gains at the local level …
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Foreign subsidiaries account for a significant part of output in many industrialised countries. Compared to international trade relations, however, relatively little is known about the role foreign direct investment linkages play in the transmission of disturbances from one country to the next....
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This paper explores local and global dynamics underlying the development of knowledge services clusters, which we define as new geographic concentrations of technical talent and service providers offering upstream technical and knowledge-intensive business services to regional and global...
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Recent research suggests that unequal access to home country institutional resources affects firm internationalization strategies. We add to this debate, based on an analysis of state-owned (SOEs) and non-state-owned (NSOEs) Chinese mining firms, by developing a more dynamic and multi-layered...
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skilled and unskilled workers and received the largest FDI inflow in Central and Eastern Europe. This paper analyzes whether … FDI has contributed to the raise in earning inequality via a change in the skill composition of labor demand in the three … countries. While we find that in Hungary and the Czech Republic FDI exerts a positive direct impact on the skill-premium, in …
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This work analyses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on productivity, the demand for skilled labour and … wage inequality of the Uruguayan Manufacturing firms for the period 1997-2005. Firstly, we estimate the effects of FDI on … results seem to indicate that FDI is associated with higher productivity and an increased demand for skilled labour …
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This paper examines the role of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in firm selection processes in the Slovenian …
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This paper examines evidence on wage spillovers from workers with experience in foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs … for such spillovers across the wage distribution using quantile regressions. I begin by using existing methodology and … positive spillovers for incumbent workers in the top 40 percent of the wage distribution only. This indicates that foreign MNEs …
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This paper examines whether former foreign MNE workers help domestic startup firms succeed. I find evidence consistent with the idea that, as founding workers, former MNE workers positively contribute to startup outcomes. However, this appears conditional on survival. Using an event study...
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