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Organization of multinational activities and ownership structure

Mugele, Christian; Schnitzer, Monika - 2006

We develop a model in which multinational investors decide about the modes of organization, the locations of production, and the markets to be served. Foreign investments are driven by market-seeking and cost-reducing motives. We further assume that investors face costs of control that vary...

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Employment protection and multinational enterprises : theory and evidence from micro data

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Duanmu, Jing-Lin; Skedinger, Per - 2012

In this paper we show, theoretically and empirically, that stronger employment protection legislation (EPL) in a host country has important and differing effects on the various activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs). Using micro data on affiliates to Swedish multinational firms in 20...

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Effects of labor market flexibility on foreign direct investment : China evidence

Liu, Junxian; Guo, Zhaoying - In: Finance research letters 53 (2023), pp. 1-7

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Employment protection and investment opportunities

Loderer, Claudio; Waelchli, Urs; Zeller, Jonas - 2016

We examine the impact of employment protection legislation (EPL) on individual firms' growth opportunities, as measured by Tobin's q. On the one hand, by increasing job security, EPL spurs innovation effort. Yet that boost only occurs in firms with little comparative advantage at original...

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Hiring, Firing, and Relocation under Employment Protection

Dai, Min - 2015

We analyze how hiring and firing costs as well as firing regulatory delays affect firms' hiring, firing, and relocation …, hiring and firing elasticities without relocation are highest with respect to demand and productivity volatility and the … hiring and firing variable costs. The elasticity of firing due to relocation is highest with respect to the firm-sized firing …

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The effects of wrongful discharge protection on foreign multinationals : evidence from transaction-level data

Kandilov, Ivan T.; Senses, Mine Zeynep - In: The Canadian journal of economics 49 (2016) 1, pp. 111-146

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Tariff rates, offshoring and productivity : evidence from German and Austrian firm-level data

Hansen, Thorsten - 2010

This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization in terms of tarif cuts within the Eastern European enlargement on German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage...

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Offshoring to Promote the Internationalization of Family Firms

Merino, Fernando - 2018

This paper analyses the impact of sourcing abroad on exporting in the case of Spanish manufacturing firms that are family-owned. Sourcing abroad can be a channel that places the firm in a better position to export, not only because it increases the productivity of the firm, but also because it...

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Global sourcing decisions and firm productivity : evidence from Spain

Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2009

We investigate the link between productivity of firms and their sourcing behavior. Following Antràs & Helpman (2004) we distinguish between domestic and foreign sourcing, as well as between outsourcing and vertical integration. A firm's choice is driven by a hold-up problem caused by lack of...

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Do Investment Agreements Necessarily Cause Offshoring? The Canada-Peru Case

Houle, Stephanie - 2018

This paper studies firm offshoring behaviour following the Canada-Peru Foreign Investment Protection Agreement (FIPA … microdata show that the change is not simply offshoring by individual firms. FDI into Peru was in mining as opposed to … Peru was not associated with offshoring of Canadian firms …

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