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Drivers and impacts in the globalization of corporate R&D: An introduction based on the European experience

Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Pietro; Vivarelli, Marco; … - 2011

The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture …-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of the globalization of corporate R&D and the … related driving factors and impacts. This introduction to the Special Section: Globalization and Corporate R&D forthcoming in …

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Margins of multinational labor substitution

Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Becker, Sascha O. - 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 and Domestic Entrepreneurship: Blessing or Curse?

Danakol, Seçil Hülya; Estrin, Saul; Reynolds, Paul; … - 2013

This paper explores the effects of foreign direct investment, measured by mergers and acquisitions, on domestic entrepreneurial entry. We use a micro‐panel of more than two thousand individuals disaggregated by industry in seventy countries including both developed and developing economies,...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship: Blessing or Curse?

Danakol, Seçil Hülya; Estrin, Saul; Reynolds, Paul; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Wages and International Rent Sharing in Multinational Firms

Budd, John W.; Konings, Jozef; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2002

We use a unique firm-level panel data set of multinational parents and their foreign affiliates to analyze whether profits are shared across borders within multinational firms. Using both fixed-effects and generalized method-of-moments estimators, affiliate wage levels are estimated to respond...

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Trade Liberalization in a Globalizing World

Faini, Riccardo - 2004

Globalization is not only about the rise of trade, FDI, and migration. It is also about the changing linkages among … investment in human capital. Overall, our results highlight the need to study globalization in a fully integrated way, not just …

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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

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

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

Palokangas, Tapio - 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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Determinants of Employment Growth at MNEs : Evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Estrin, Saul; Meyer, Klaus - 2004

Foreign investors are expected to contribute to economic development through a variety of channels. However, many foreign investment operations are small, and almost insignificant in their impact on the local environment. An important indication of the potential contribution of foreign investors...

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Evaluating the causal effects of foreign acquisition on domestic skilled and unskilled wages

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003

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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