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Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity: Are Services Firms Different?

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper contributes to the literature on international firm activities and firm performance by providing the first evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany...

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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Becker, Sascha O. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE) expands into foreign locations, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates across locations. We derive conditions for parametric and nonparametric...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments

Palokangas, Tapio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour contracts and lobby the self-interested government for taxation and labour market regulation. We demonstrate that right-to-manage bargaining predicts higher returns for FDI than does...

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The Linkages between FDI and Domestic Investment: Unravelling the Developmental Impact of Foreign Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ndikumana, Leonce; Verick, Sher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

While the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries is a welcome development, the question remains as to the impact of these resource inflows on economic development. This study posits that a key channel of the impact of FDI on development is through its effects on...

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Wage Inequality, Linkages and FDI

Driffield, Nigel; Girma, Sourafel; Henry, Michael; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper extends the existing literature on FDI and wage inequality. We do this in two ways. Firstly, we incorporate more precise measures of inward investment into the model, by allowing for differences in the effects between horizontal and vertical FDI. Secondly, after establishing the...

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Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Direct Investment?

Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Governments the world over offer significant inducements to attract inward investment, motivated by the expectation of spillover benefits to augment the primary benefits of a boost to national income from new investment. This paper begins by reviewing possible sources of FDI induced spillovers....

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Spillovers From Foreign Firms Through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Our results suggest that firms which...

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Ethnic Sorting in the Netherlands

Zorlu, Aslan; Latten, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper examines the residential mobility behaviour of migrants and natives in the Netherlands using a rich administrative individual data file. The inclination to move and the choice of destination neighbourhood are estimated, correcting for the selection bias of movers. Subsequently, the...

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Fiscal Zoning, Sales Taxes, and Employment: Do Higher Sales Taxes Lead to More Jobs in Retailing and Fewer Jobs in Manufacturing?

Burnes, Daria; Neumark, David; White, Michelle J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We test the hypothesis that local government officials in jurisdictions that have higher local sales taxes are more likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor...

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Doctors Without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel

Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the …-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of Health provides an exogenous source of variation in re-licensing outcomes … to occupational entry restrictions and negative selection into licensing status. We develop a model of optimal license …

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