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The effects of foreign direct investment on job stability: Upgrades, downgrades, and separations
Borrs, Linda; Eppelsheimer, Johann - 2020
Umstrukturierungen als Reaktion auf eine veränderte Arbeitsnachfrage durch FDI. …We use linked employer-employee data to estimate the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on workers' job … stability. We are the first to consider firm-internal job transitions. Specifically, we examine the impact of FDI on the …
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Expansion Abroad and Jobs at Home - Evidence from Japanese Multinational Enterprises
Yamashita, Nobuaki; Fukao, Kyoji - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This paper examines the exporting job hypothesis that expansion of overseas operations of manufacturing multinational enterprises (MNEs) reduces home employment using data for Japanese MNEs. While the existing studies are mainly based on the industry level data, this paper presents the evidence...
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The Home Country Employment Effects of Internationalisation - A Literature Review
Kotiranta, Annu; Lundan, Sarianna; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008
This report reviews some of the most recent literature examining the home country employment effects of internationalisation. A brief overview of the history of the internationalisation of Finnish firms is also presented. The general conclusion from the literature is that the absolute employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700398
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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2013
It is widely believed that globalization increases the volatility of employment and decreases the bargaining power of workers. One mechanism explaining this relationship is given by the long-standing Hicks-Marshall laws of derived demand: with international trade increasing competition and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771744
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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014
It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238353
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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Sieglich, Sebastian - 2014
It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250050
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Types of FDI and determinants of affiliate size : the classification makes the difference
Hecht, Veronika; Moritz, Michael; Noska, Patricia; … - 2019
This paper focuses on the role of classifying types of foreign direct investment (FDI) for analyzing the determinants … investment (VFDI) and horizontal foreign direct investment (HFDI). Apart from data for conventional approaches to classify FDI … to companies without investment abroad. The results for the direct measures of FDI types confirm theoretical expectations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265846
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Horizontal and vertical FDI : a comparative analysis of technological determinants
Franco, Chiara - 2010
(NSI), in enhancing or hampering Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) with different motivations, namely horizontal and … vertical FDI. The empirical analysis is carried out using data relative to the final destination of sales of US foreign … especially for vertical FDI. Secondly, applying a dynamic panel data approach we take into account that agglomeration economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737969
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Types of FDI and determinants of affiliate size : the classification makes the difference
Hecht, Veronika; Moritz, Michael; Noska, Patricia; … - 2016
This paper deals with the measurement of motives for foreign direct investment (FDI). Due to a lack of information …, several indirect measures exist in order to classify multinational firms into the two main types of FDI. While vertical … country and the subsidiary in the target country. The question arises as to how reliable this measure is for identifying FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523307
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Chapter 2. Multinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade
Antràs, Pol; Yeaple, Stephen R. - In: Handbook of international economics : Volume 4, (pp. 55-130). 2014
This chapter reviews the state of the international trade literature on multinational firms. This literature addresses three main questions. First, why do some firms operate in more than one country while others do not? Second, what determines in which countries production facilities are...
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