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Multinationals as stabilizers? : Economic crisis and plant employment growth
Álvarez, Roberto (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2007
This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003540699
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Multinationals as Stabilizers? : Economic Crisis and Plant Employment Growth
Alvarez, Roberto - 2007
This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012730480
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Multinationals as Stabilizers? Economic Crisis and Plant Employment Growth
Alvarez, Roberto; Görg, Holger - 2021
This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317152
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Talent Abroad Promoting Growth and Institutional Development at Home: Skilled Diaspora as Part of the Country
Kuznetsov, Yevgeny - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2010) 44, pp. 1-7
As developing countries embark on a policy agenda of innovation-based growth, they face an acute shortage of competent individuals who know the country well, but who are not part of the “status quo” and therefore have no vested interests other than the best possible country outcome....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852658
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Social Roles, Human Capital, and the Intrahousehold Division of Labour: Evidence from Pakistan
Fafchamps, Marcel; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000
one`s status within the family - heretoforth family status - affect the division of labor within households. Results … intrahousehold division of labor is influenced by comparative advantage based on human capital and by long-lasting returns to … hierarchies with sexually segregated spheres of activity. The head of household and his or her spouse provide most of the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605115
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Multinationales as stabilizers? Economic crisis, access to finance, and employment growth
Álvarez, Roberto; Görg, Holger - 2011
This paper examines the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile. We find that employment in manufacturing plants has been drastically reduced during the economic crisis. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277461
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Multinationales as stabilizers? : Economic crisis, access to finance, and employment growth
Álvarez, Roberto; Görg, Holger - 2011
This paper examines the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile. We find that employment in manufacturing plants has been drastically reduced during the economic crisis. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009006622
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Migration and Brain Drain : Survey For the Azerbaijan Economy
Gurbanov, Sarvar - 2015
Existing literature about migration flows between developing and developed countries provides numerous country cases on brain drain related issues. One study suggests that, Turkey is relatively unsuccessful on managing brain drain. On the contrary, other study depicts that India converted brain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023017
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Revisiting the Informal Sector: A General Equilibrium Approach
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Mukhopadhyay, Ujjaini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
During the last 50 years with unprecedented population growth and urbanization, economic development, particularly in developing countries failed to generate adequate employment and income opportunities in the modern sector, compelling the surplus labour force to generate its own means of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259973
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Multinationals as Stabilizers? Economic Crisis and Plant Employment Growth
Álvarez, Roberto; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247703