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Employment Protection and FDI Revisited : New Evidence from Micro Data
Norback, Pehr-Johan; Skedinger, Per; Duanmu, Jing-Lin - 2019
We use micro data on affiliates to Swedish multinational firms (MNEs) to explore the impact of more stringent employment protection legislation (EPL) on foreign direct investment (FDI). We add to the previous literature by exploring the impact of EPL on the extensive as well as intensive margin,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014107182
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How Important is Employment Protection Legislation for Foreign Direct Investment Flows in Central and Eastern European Countries?
Scharler, Johann; Leibrecht, Markus - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically the importance of labor market conditions and in particular of employment protection legislation as a determinant of bilateral Foreign Direct Investment flows to seven Central and Eastern European countries. Although our results indicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627244
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The effect of uncertainty on foreign direct investment : the case of Mexico
López Noria, Gabriela; Zamudio Fernández, Juan José - 2018
This paper investigates the effect of uncertainty on FDI flows into the Mexican manufacturing sector during the period … affect all manufacturing subsectors in general) uncertainty measures as explicative variables. We also perform some … simulations to quantify the effect of uncertainty on FDI flows. The main results show that uncertainty discourages FDI flows into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795401
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Firm-level employment, labour market reforms, and bank distress
Setzer, Ralph; Stieglitz, Moritz - 2019
We explore the interaction between labour market reforms and financial frictions. Our study combines a new cross-country reform database on labour market reforms with matched firm-bank data for nine euro area countries over the period 1999 to 2013. While we find that labour market reforms are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021559
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The growing divergence in U.S. employee relations : individualism, democracy, and conflict
Norlander, Peter - 2019
The growing divergence in U.S. employee relations is described through a review of national and state-level changes to employment protection laws. Major employment laws are reviewed, as are the significant exceptions to the laws, and exemptions to the exceptions. Major regulatory actions, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161716
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Credit shocks, employment protection, and growth : firm-level evidence from Spain
Laeven, Luc; McAdam, Peter; Popov, Alexander - 2018
We offer new evidence on the real effects of credit shocks in the presence of employment protection regulations by exploiting a unique provision in Spanish labor laws: dismissal rules are less stringent for Spanish firms with fewer than 50 employees, lowering the cost of hiring new workers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871918
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Environmental risk and growth in foreign direct investment : is the composition of FDI in sub-Saharan Africa a speculative type?
Ohemeng, Williams; Ofori-Boateng, Kenneth; Agyapong, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-25
The study explores the influence of environmental risk (macroeconomic uncertainty and environmental sustainability risk … outcomes show that higher level of uncertainty in GDP growth, inflation uncertainty and financial development volatility induce … more FDI inflows whilst uncertainty in exchange rate adversely impacts FDI inflows in SSA. The paper highlights how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014503043
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The effect of uncertainty on foreign direct investment: The case of Mexico
López Noria, Gabriela; Zamudio Fernández, Juan José - 2018
This paper investigates the effect of uncertainty on FDI flows into the Mexican manufacturing sector during the period … affect all manufacturing subsectors in general) uncertainty measures as explicative variables. We also perform some … simulations to quantify the effect of uncertainty on FDI flows. The main results show that uncertainty discourages FDI flows into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057063
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Geopolitical Risk and R&D investment
Pan, Wei-Fong - 2019
Although most empirical studies conclude that uncertainty delays firms' investments based on real options theory …, empirical evidence regarding the impact of uncertainty on innovation is mixed. This study examines the impact of geopolitical … firm characteristics, macroeconomic environment, other uncertainty measures, time, and alternative GPR and R&D measures, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897976
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The Growing Divergence in U.S. Employee Relations: Individualism, Democracy, and Conflict
Norlander, Peter - 2019
The growing divergence in U.S. employee relations is described through a review of national and state-level changes to employment protection laws. Major employment laws are reviewed, as are the significant exceptions to the laws, and exemptions to the exceptions. Major regulatory actions, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984279