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Brain Drain with FDI Gain? Factor Mobility between Eastern and Western Europe
Simone, Gianfranco De; Manchin, Miriam - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008
A growing strand of literature highlights that skilled migration may favour growth-enhancing technology transfer, trade and foreign direct investments between the source and the host economies of migrants (network effects). We explore a specific channel through which the possible \"diaspora...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962221
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Brain Drain with FDI Gain? Factor Mobility between Eastern and Western Europe
Manchin, Miriam; De Simone, Gianfranco - 2009
A growing strand of literature highlights that skilled migration may favour growth-enhancing technology transfer, trade and foreign direct investments between the source and the host economies of migrants (net-work effects). We explore a specific channel through which the possible "diaspora...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208202
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742945
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010395778
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Do friends follow each other? : FDI network effects in Central Europe
Békés, Gábor; Bisztray, Márta - 2017
A great deal of multinationals receive a bundle of hidden or cash subsidizes upon investing in a foreign country. Policymakers often argue that a subsidy today will help locate friends of the investor later on. Using extensive data on FDI investments, we analyze such patterns. In particular, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011686520
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Bilateral FDI potentials for Austria
Egger, Peter - 2008
Trade economists have for long considered gravity models to estimate unexhausted potentials for bilateral trade. Similar to the discrepancy between "normal" and "actual" bilateral trade, one may ask the question about the difference between "normal" and actual bilateral multinational activity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392130
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Multinational firms' organisational dynamics : competition intensity and the ownership decision under uncertainty
Navarro, Leandro Gastón - 2021
increasing offshoring activity increases competition in the final goods market, leading to a progressive vertical disintegration … of the supply chains. Initially, the firms that decide to explore offshoring potential choose integration. As competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332242
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Where Enterprises Lead, People Follow? Links between Migration and German FDI
Buch, Claudia M.; Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2008
Globalization has affected the integration of markets through many different channels, including movements of factors and trade in goods. From a theoretical point of view, the interaction between the different channels of integration can take different forms. The aim of this paper is to analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072514
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Behaviour of Belgian firms in the context of globalisation : lessons from the conference on “International Trade : Threats and Opportunities in a Globalised World”
Dhyne, E.; Dresse, L.; Fuss, C.; Piette, Ch. - In: Economic Review (2011) I, pp. 73-88
offshoring are comparable. Finally, while multinationals manage their workforce more flexibly than domestic firms, they have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357662
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Escaping to the east? : relocation of business activities to and from Hungary, 2003 - 2011
Hunya, Magdolna Sass-Gábor - 2014
While the increased frequency of relocation of productive capacities to lower wage countries from developed economies has given rise to discussions concerning job losses and de-industrialisation, developments in the host countries of relocation have been widely neglected. Hungary, together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252180