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Why do foreign-owned-firms pay more? : the role of on-the-job training

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2002

Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally …

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Headquarter services, skill intensity and labour demand elasticities in multinational firms

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - 2009

Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to own labour costs changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in wage elasticity of labour demand persists...

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Multinational companies, backward linkages and labour demand elasticities

Görg, Holger; Henry, Michael; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2006

This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals becomes less elastic with respect to the wage if the plant has backward linkages with the local...

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Domestic multinationals, foreign affiliates, and labour demand elasticities

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - 2012

Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in the wage elasticity of labour demand persists...

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Foreign acquisition, plant survival, and employment growth

Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - 2009

This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...

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Foreign acquisition, plant survival, and employment growth

Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - 2009

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Firm heterogeneity, industry characteristics and types of FDI : the case of German FDI in the Czech Republic

Görg, Holger; Mühlen, Henning; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2009

In addition to firm and industry characteristics, the heterogeneity of foreign direct investment (FDI) has to be taken …. The impact of firm and industry characteristics on FDI decisions is assessed by estimating two-step Heckman models. We … characteristics also affect the size of FDI in manufacturing. The relevance of both firm and industry characteristics critically …

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Why do foreign-owned firms pay more? : the role of on-the-job training

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2007

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Multinationals as stabilizers? : economic crisis and plant employment growth

Álvarez, Roberto (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2007

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Multinationals as stabilizers? : economic crisis and plant employment growth

Álvarez, Roberto; Görg, Holger - 2007

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