Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment patterns. It analyzes determinants of location choice and the degree of substitutability of labor across locations. Countries with highly skilled labor forces attract German MNEs, but...

Ausländischen Direktinvestitionen deutscher Unternehmen und deren Auswirkungen auf den heimischen Arbeitsmarkt wird in der Öffentlichkeit und Politik erhebliche Aufmerksamkeit zuteil. Angesichts vorschneller Urteile im öffentlichen Diskurs versucht dieser Artikel auf Grundlage der...

Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment patterns. It analyzes determinants of location choice and the degree of substitutability of labor across locations. Countries with highly skilled labor forces attract German MNEs, but...

Mit seinem Urteil vom 26. Januar 2005 hob das Bundesverfassungsgericht das Verbot von Studiengebühren für das Erststudium auf und stellt es damit den Bundesländern frei, Studiengebühren zu erheben. In diesem Beitrag wird argumentiert, dass Studiengebühren als solche nicht ungerecht sein...

Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment patterns. It analyzes determinants of location choice and the degree of substitutability of labor across locations. Countries with highly skilled labor forces attract German MNEs, but...

Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment patterns. It analyzes determinants of location choice and the degree of substitutability of labor across locations. Countries with highly skilled labor forces attract German MNEs, but...

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...

Employment at multinational enterprises (MNEs) responds to wages at the extensive margin, when an MNE enters a foreign location, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates. We present an MNE model and conditions for parametric and nonparametric identification. Prior...