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Location choice of German multinationals in the Czech Republic : the importance of agglomeration economies
Hecht, Veronika - 2015
host region. Using a nested logit approach the impact of agglomeration economies, labour market conditions and distance on … economies. Besides localisation economies the agglomeration of German compa-nies in a region plays a decisive role. The … Investoren untersucht. Das zentrale Ergebnis des Papiers ist, dass für die Attraktivität einer tschechischen Region für deutsche …
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German FDI in the Czech Republic : employment effects in the home country
Schäffler, Johannes; Moritz, Michael - 2018
Do investments in the Czech Republic lead to employment growth or employment losses in the German firms involved? To 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...
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Regional determinants of German FDI in the Czech Republic : evidence from a gravity model approach
Schäffler, Johannes; Hecht, Veronika; Moritz, Michael - 2014
combination of a headquarters in a German spatial planning region and an affiliate in a Czech NUTS 3 region. Concerning the … regions; second, attributes representing the distance between the headquarters in Germany and the affiliates in the Czech … der regionalen Verteilung multinationaler Unternehmen in Deutschland und deren Tochtergesellschaften in der Tschechischen …
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Multinational resilience or dispensable jobs? : German FDI and employment in the Czech Republic around the Great Recession
Eisermann, Merlind; Moritz, Michael; Stockinger, Bastian - 2015
This article investigates the employment development of Czech-based firms in German ownership in the years around the Great Recession of 2008/2009. The intense involvement of German firms in the economy of the neighboring country via foreign direct investment (FDI) raises the question whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488273
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Persistence of commuting habits : context effects in Germany
Jost, Ramona - 2020
Based on the geo-referenced data, I analyse the commuting behaviour of employees in Germany. With the help of a …-observed commutes: Worker choose longer commuting times in a region they just moved to, the longer the average commute was in the region …, I show if individuals stay in the new region, the effect of the previous region disappears, as workers adapt the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222500
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Local human capital, segregation by skill, and skill-specific employment growth
Schlitte, Friso - 2010
Labour markets in most highly developed countries are marked by rising levels of skill segregation in the production process and increasing inequalities in skill-specific employment prospects. Local human capital has a likely effect on skill specific productivity levels and employment growth....
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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 foreign direct investment (VFDI) refers to the international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523307
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The effects of foreign direct investment onjob stability: upgrades, downgrades, andseparations
Borrs, Linda; Eppelsheimer, Johann - 2020
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 individual likelihood to up- or downgrade to occupations with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256989
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FDI and onshore employment dynamics
Koerner, Konstantin; Moritz, Michael; Schäffler, Johannes - 2021
In this paper, we revisit questions about the onshore employment effects of firms that conduct foreign direct investment (FDI) in countries with substantially lower average wages. Our results derive from the use of rich administrative records on the universe of employees in German multinational...
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Employment effects of the new German minimum wage : evidence from establishment-level micro data
Bossler, Mario; Gerner, Hans-Dieter - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung - 2016
Am 1. Januar 2015 wurde in Deutschland der allgemeine gesetzliche Mindestlohn eingeführt. Wir identifizieren …
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