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Incentive Effects of Bonus Payments : Evidence from an International Company

Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2004

This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international company to study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two performance related remuneration mechanisms. One is an individual "surprise" bonus payment. The other is a more structured...

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Determinants of Employment Growth at MNEs : Evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Estrin, Saul; Meyer, Klaus - 2004

Foreign investors are expected to contribute to economic development through a variety of channels. However, many foreign investment operations are small, and almost insignificant in their impact on the local environment. An important indication of the potential contribution of foreign investors...

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Wages and International Rent Sharing in Multinational Firms

Budd, John W.; Konings, Jozef; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2002

We use a unique firm-level panel data set of multinational parents and their foreign affiliates to analyze whether profits are shared across borders within multinational firms. Using both fixed-effects and generalized method-of-moments estimators, affiliate wage levels are estimated to respond...

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Taxpayer Responses to Competitive Tax Policies and Tax Policy Responses to Competitive Taxpayers : Recent Evidence

Altshuler, Rosanne; Grubert, Harry - 2004

competition. First, does tax competition or company tax planning behavior better explain recent decreases in the local effective … between 1992 and 1998 seems to be driven by tax competition. Countries that lost shares of U.S. manufacturing real capital … tax competition to lower effective tax burdens abroad. The evolution of country effective rates between 1998 and 2000 …

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Investitions- und Finanzierungsverhalten Multinationaler Unternehmen

Zemanek, Holger - 2004

Das vorliegende Arbeitspapier möchte einen Beitrag leisten, das Investitions- und Finanzierungsverhalten multinationaler Unternehmen auszuleuchten. Hierzu werden auf der Grundlage der Surveys of Current Business, die vom Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) erhoben werden, sowie anhand von...

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Organizational forms for global engagement of firms

Bogheas, Sprios; Görg, Holger - 2008

Global engagement of firms can take a variety of forms. We argue that there are considerable advantages of developing models that allow for a wide set of alternatives of organizational form. We illustrate this firstly using plant level data which allows us to distinguish firms that serve only...

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Multinational firms and heterogeneous labor

Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2008

In the presence of increasing specialization of workers it becomes more and more difficult for firms to find the most suitable workers. In such an environment a multinational corporation has an advantage because it can exchange workers between plants in different countries. In this way it can...

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Firm heterogeneity and choice of ownership structure: an empirical analysis of German FDI in India

Görg, Holger; Lauber, Verena; Meyer, Birgit; … - 2008

We contribute to the nascent literature on the heterogeneity of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the relevance of firm characteristics for analyzing the determinants of outward foreign direct investment (FDI). The focus is on the role of firm-level heterogeneity when MNEs decide on the share...

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International Firm Activities and Innovation: Evidence from Knowledge Production Functions for German Firms

Wagner, Joachim - 2006

Using a knowledge production framework and a rich set of plant level data this study demonstrates that in Germany firms that are active on international markets as exporters or foreign direct investors do generate more new knowledge than firms which sell on the national market only. These...

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Regional Dimensions of Liability of Foreignness: Between a Rock and a Hard Place?

Sofka, Wolfgang; Zimmermann, Jörg - 2007

In this paper we develop optimized localization strategies for multinational firms to overcome their liability of foreignness by adding a regional dimension. We explore conceptually whether economic stress in a region has a mitigating or reinforcing effect. We test this analytical framework...

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