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South-South FDI and Development in East Asia

Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2012

This paper attempts to measure the size of South-South FDI in developing East Asia and the trends in it, and the characteristics of the investing countries and the investments themselves. It also summarizes the findings of studies in individual countries of the effects of these investments. The...

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FDI and Growth in East Asia : Lessons for Indonesia

Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2010

Foreign direct investment has been important in the economic growth and global economic integration of developing countries over the last decades. Both Northeast and Southeast Asia, especially the latter, have been part of this development with increasing inflows of FDI and greater foreign...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137268

Offshoring, Total Factor Productivity and Skill-Biased Technological Change

Akhmetova, Zhanar - 2015

The paper answers two questions simultaneously. What is the effect of offshoring on firms' total factor productivity …? What is the effect of offshoring on skill-biased technological change? We estimate a model of firm production that allows … for the effect of offshoring on both total factor productivity and relative skilled labor productivity, and for spillovers …

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Acquisitions, Multinationals and Wage Dispersion

Heyman, Fredrik; Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik; Sjöholm, … - 2006

Multinational firms pay relatively high wages. Less is known about the wage structure within multinational and non-multinational firms. We examine the impact of acquisitions on wage dispersion in Sweden using a large matched employer-employee data set. Foreign acquisitions of Swedish firms...

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Cross-Border Acquisitions, Multinationals and Wage Elasticities

Hakkala, Katariina; Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2007

The growing number of cross-border acquisitions has in many countries raised concerns about labor demand consequences. In this study, we use detailed firm level data to examine how increased internationalization and multinational activity affect the volatility of employment, or rather, the wage...

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Importing Automation and Wage Inequality Through Foreign Acquisitions

Gardberg, Malin; Heyman, Fredrik; Tåg, Joacim - 2023

Is technology or trade driving increases in wage inequality? We propose that technology interacts with trade in the form of foreign direct investments to widen domestic wage inequality. We show that foreign acquisitions of domestic firms disproportionately affect wages for workers who perform...

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Should Ramp;D Champions Be Protected from Foreign Takeovers?

Bertrand, Olivier - 2020

We analyze how the entry mode of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) affects affiliate Ramp;amp;D activities. Using unique affiliate level data for Swedish multinational firms, we first present empirical evidence that acquired affiliates have a higher level of Ramp;amp;D intensity than greenfield...

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Subsidizing Away Exports? A Note on R&D-Policy Towards Multinational Firms

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan - 2020

In this paper, I investigate whether instead of strengthening home-based production, government R&D-subsidies can induce R&D-intensive firms to locate production abroad. Investigating firm-level data on Swedish MNEs, however, I find no evidence of such relocation. R&D subsidies rather tend to en...

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Globalization, Job Tasks and the Demand for Different Occupations

Heyman, Fredrik - 2020

Globalization has increased in recent decades, resulting in structural changes of production and labor demand. This paper examines how the increased global engagement of firms affects the structure of the workforce. We find that the aggregate distribution of occupations in Sweden has become more...

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Domestic and Foreign Investment by Swedish Multinationals

Svensson, Roger - 2020

In the 1980s, there was a huge increase in the outflow of foreign direct investment from Sweden to the EC. The EC market is the most important for Swedish firms and it is during the last decade that EC has undergone major changes. This paper uses a unique data set on individual Swedish MNCs for...

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