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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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1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital participation is associated with higher innovative activity. Inward FDI …
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We use a plant level survey to identify interactions between domestic plants and foreign direct investment (FDI) in … where a large greenfield foreign plant produces and districts where FDI in the same industry and around the same time was …
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This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … destination countries for foreign direct investments. Our micro-econometric analysis reveals a ceteris paribus higher risk of exit …
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The stylized literature on foreign direct investment suggests that developing countries should invest in the human … capital of their labour force in order to attract foreign direct investment. However, if educational quality in developing …
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We estimate the wage effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) with universal firm-level and linked employer …-employee panel data containing 4,926 foreign acquisitions in Hungary. Matching on pre-acquisition data and controlling for fixed … for 983 foreign acquisitions later divested to domestic owners. We find positive effects for all worker types, occupations …
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2008-10 survey of China's High-tech firms, conducted by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, to estimate the …, language and business culture, and trade laws in both China and the West. Their unique skill sets and knowledge appear to serve …
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Economic theory has identified a number of channels through which openness to international financial flows could raise productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output growth, far less attention has been paid to its...
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This paper explores the impact of EU membership on foreign direct investment (FDI). It analyses empirically how the …
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We exploit the designs of two separate U.S. refugee dispersal policies to provide causal evidence that refugees foster outward FDI to their countries of origin. Drawing upon aggregated individual-level refugee and project-level FDI data, we first leverage the quasi-random distribution of...
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