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Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Note on Employment Protection, Domestic Anchorage, and FDI

Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Montagna, Catia - 2021

This paper examines how employment protection legislation affects location decisions of multinationals. Based on a simple theoretical framework, we estimate an empirical model, using OECD-data on bilateral FDI-flows and employment protection indices. We find that, while an "unfavourable"...

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The Threshold Effects of Global Economic Uncertainty on Foreign Direct Investment

Lagos, Konstantinos; Wang, Yuan - 2022

This paper investigates the role of global economic uncertainty in Dunning’s investment development path (IDP … countries’ net outward investment (NOI) follows a non-linear pattern even after incorporating global economic uncertainty into … the analysis. At the same time, global economic uncertainty has non-linear effects on NOI subject to the level of economic …

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Employment Protection and Globalisation in Dynamic Oligopoly

Dewit, Gerda; Leahy, Dermot; Montagna, Catia - 2003

-stage game with uncertainty it is demonstrated that location is influenced by both flexibility and strategic concerns. We show … provided uncertainty and foreign direct investment costs are low …

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Anti-migration as a threat to internationalization? : a review of the migration-internationalization literature

Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2018

Does anti-migration sentiment threaten internationalization? One major pro-Brexit argument was that it would enable more control over immigration. The most recent US presidential election also focused on immigration. Anti-migration sentiment could be a threat to internationalization, given that...

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Employment protection and firm relocation : theory and evidence

Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Temouri, Yama - 2018

We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between employment protection and relocation. Stricter employment protection laws over time in the...

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Employment protection and firm relocation : theory and evidence

Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Temouri, Yama - 2018

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Employment protection and firm relocation : theory and evidence

Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Temouri, Yama - 2018

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Guided Through the 'Red Tape'? Information Sharing and Foreign Direct Investment

Balsvik, Ragnhild - 2013

What drives the observed tendency of new FDI, other things equal, to be attracted to locations where many other foreign investors are located? One explanation in the literature on FDI location is that expected benefits from agglomeration externalities make firms want to locate in agglomerated...

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Learning Through International Acquisitions : The Process of Knowledge Acquisition in China

Zou, Huan - 2016

● Research on the process of knowledge learning and absorption in acquisition context has emerged recently. Yet relatively less attention has been paid to the process of knowledge transfer and learning and its impact on successful acquisitions.● This paper adopts a process perspective' to...

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Employment Protection and FDI Revisited : New Evidence from Micro Data

Norback, Pehr-Johan; Skedinger, Per; Duanmu, Jing-Lin - 2019

We use micro data on affiliates to Swedish multinational firms (MNEs) to explore the impact of more stringent employment protection legislation (EPL) on foreign direct investment (FDI). We add to the previous literature by exploring the impact of EPL on the extensive as well as intensive margin,...

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