This paper analyzes the determinants and effects of firm-level FDI flows on the basis of German micro-level data …. Concering the determinants of FDI, I differentiate between different target regions and motivations for FDI (market seeking …/horizontal FDI versus cost reducing/vertical FDI). The main result is that most firms engage in FDI because of market access. Further …

(GMM). As a main result I find that there is no negative effect of firm-level FDI flows on employment. Positive effects …This paper analyzes the determinants and effects of firm-level FDI flows on the basis of German micro-level data …. Concering the determinants of FDI, I differentiate between different target regions and motivations for FDI (market seeking …

address this question, a unique database about German firms with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Czech Republic and … firms without FDI in any country has been established within the IAB-ReLOC project. By developing a new method for linking … development of firms with Czech affiliates and firms without FDI is compared for the same time periods. The analysis shows that …

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 …