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Distance is crucial, at least for neighbors : foreign employment at the district level

Lehmann, Robert; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2015 - Preliminary draft, this version: July 31, 2015

We study the regional representation of foreign workers from each EU-27 country in German regions. For most of the German neighboring countries, we find that distance significantly matters for the workplace location in Germany. The striking exception is Poland. For non-neighboring countries,...

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Singapore : Still an Expatriates World?

Gupta, Ritu - 2010

Singapore is one of the most unique countries in the world, with the smallest area per sq meter and almost no local population, it is a country inhabited by people from all over the world and they constitute the total population of Singapore. It is unique because despite its size and the fact...

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Does public governance always matter? : how experience of poor institutional quality influences FDI to the South

Darby, Julia; Desbordes, Rodolphe; Wooton, Ian - 2010

This paper investigates whether the higher prevalence of South multinational enterprises (MNEs) in risky developing countries may be explained by the experience that they have acquired of poor institutional quality at home. We confirm the intuition provided by our analytical model by empirically...

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Does Public Governance Always Matter? How Experience of Poor Institutional Quality Influences FDI to the South

Darby, Julia - 2011

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Emerging Giants, Aspiring Multinationals and Foreign Executives : Leapfrogging, Capability Building, and Competing with Developed Country Multinationals

Arp, Frithjof - 2014

The phenomenon of emerging market organizations appointing foreign executives from distant cultural contexts to headquarter positions has stirred public and academic interest. Emerging giants, aspiring multinationals, and even local organizations that focus entirely on domestic markets have...

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US Foreign Affiliates, Technology Diffusion and Host Country Human Development : Human Development Index versus Human Capital

ElMawazini, Khaled - 2016

1966-2000 to investigate human development as a measure of host country absorptive capacity in 30 developed and developing … labor productivity only if host countries have a minimum level of human development. This condition may partially explain … development enhances the capacity of countries to reap the benefits of foreign direct investments …

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Transnational cooperation : an explorative collection

Grimm, Sven (ed.); Klingebiel, Stephan (ed.) - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2024

Development and Sustainability (IDOS) project on international and transnational cooperation for development and sustainability …

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Reviewing a decade of research on the "base/bottom of the pyramid" (BOP) concept

Kolk, Ans; Rivera-Santos, Miguel; Rufín, Carlos Ramón - In: Business & society 53 (2014) 3, pp. 338-377

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Infrastructure, multinational affiliate production, and the pattern of trade

Kellenberg, Derek K. - In: International economic journal 29 (2015) 3, pp. 475-502

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Foreign ownership and the export and import propensities of developing-country firms

Boddin, Dominik; Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2015

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms in terms of labor...

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