Search Results - subject:"Firm level data"

Do Foreign Investors Care about Labor Market Regulations?

Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska; Spatareanu, Mariana - In: Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 141 (2005) 3, pp. 375-403

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Exports, Foreign Direct Investment, and Productivity: Evidence from German Firm Level Data

Wagner, Joachim - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents the first empirical test with German establishment level data of a hypothesis derived by Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either trough exports or foreign direct investment: only the more...

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Export Outsourcing and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Taiwanese Exporting Firms

Liu, Bih Jane; Tung, An-Chi - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2005

Exporting and FDI have traditionally been two major firm-level responses to globalization. Export outsourcing (EO), a new strategy that gained in importance recently, has now become another alternative. This paper seeks to examine how firms choose between EO and outward FDI by looking into...

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Do Foreign Investors Care About Labour Market Regulations?

Javorcik, Beata; Spatareanu, Mariana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

market flexibility affects FDI flows across 19 Western and Eastern European countries. The analysis is based on firm-level … data on new investments undertaken during the 1998-2001 period. The study employs a variety of proxies for labour market …

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Exports and Productivity: A Survey of the Evidence fro Firm Level Data

Wagner, Joachim - EconWPA - 2005

While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated empirically using aggregate data for countries and industries for a long time, only recently have comprehensive longitudinal data at the firm level been used to look at the extent and...

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Is Rising Returns to Scale a Figment of Poor Data?

Hansen, Sten; Lindström, Tomas - Konjunkturinstitutet, Government of Sweden - 2004

While using detailed firm-level data from the private business sector, this study identifies two empirical puzzles: (i …

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The Effectiveness of Qualification Measures for Employed Workers - An Evaluation Study for Saxony

Fertig, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper investigates whether and to what extent employment policy measures (co-) financed by the European Social Fund in Germany meet their objective. Specifically, it is analyzed whether qualification programs for employed workers in the German state of Saxony were effective in terms of...

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Growing by learning : firm-level evidence on the size-productivity nexus

Moral-Benito, Enrique

Las pequeñas empresas son menos productivas que las grandes empresas. Asimismo, las empresas españolas son más pequeñas y menos productivas que sus homólogas europeas. Sin embargo, ¿son menos productivas porque son más pequeñas o son más pequeñas porque son menos productivas? Este...

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High growth firms in employment and productivity : dynamic interactions and the role of financial constraints

Guillamón Rojo, Cristina; Moral-Benito, Enrique; …

En este artículo se investigan las posibles interacciones entre episodios de alto crecimiento de las empresas en tamaño y en productividad, utilizando un panel de empresas españolas que comprende el período 2002-2012. Encontramos que alto crecimiento en productividad (tamaño) incrementa las...

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Trade and credit : revisiting the evidence

Gutiérrez, Eduardo; Moral-Benito, Enrique

Este trabajo investiga los efectos de shocks de crédito sobre las exportaciones de las empresas españolas. Para ello, combinamos la información procedente de los microdatos de transacciones con el exterior de la Balanza de Pagos con datos de crédito procedentes de la Central de Información...

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