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We ask whether the gendered division of work affects firm productivity across the spectrum of economic development. Personnel records of over 100,000 individuals hired by a global firm that operates in 100 countries reveal that the performance of female employees is higher where women are...
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This paper investigates the effects of the takeover of a domestic establishment by foreign owners on the domestic target?s development of wages for skilled and unskilled workers. We pay particular attention to identifying the causal effect, using a propensity score matching approach combined...
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. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000 multinationals and more than 5,000 of their affiliates, covering … 47 home and host countries. We find considerable evidence that multinationals share profits internationally, by paying …
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potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions, namely that (i) multinationals use domestically … produced inputs in the same proportion as imported inputs, (ii) multinationals have the same input sourcing behaviour as … domestic firms, irrespective of their country of origin, and (iii) the demand for locally produced inputs by multinationals is …
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This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant level data for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants and their complete grant history. We provide evidence that additional employment is created over and above the level...
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potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions, namely that (i) multinationals use domestically … produced inputs in the same proportion as imported inputs, (ii) multinationals have the same input sourcing behaviour as … domestic firms, irrespective of their country of origin, and (iii) the demand for locally produced inputs by multinationals is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008517974
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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questions: are affiliates of foreign multinationals more likely to exit than domestic firms? Does the exit probability of … multinationals depend on its export orientation?, and Does the presence of multinationals affect the survival of other firms in the … that only domestic market oriented multinationals responded to this negative shock by being more "footloose"; this is not …
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in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical … find evidence that multinationals react to the economic crisis differently than do domestic firms. Our findings hold in a … idea that multinationals are less affected by an economic crisis and that they may be able to act as stabilizers in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247703
. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000 multinationals and more than 5,000 of their affiliates, covering … 47 home and host countries. We find considerable evidence that multinationals share profits internationally, by paying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683658