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The Tax Sensitivity of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data [PDF]

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Understanding the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) is important for analyzing capital flows and the industrial organization of multinational firms.
Jason G. Cummins, R. Glenn Hubbard
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Wages and Working Conditions in Global Value Chains: The Relevance of Foreign Ownership in New Sourcing Countries

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The debate on the relationship between labour conditions in manufacturing sectors and global value chain (GVC) participation takes a new turn with the emergence of sub‐Saharan African (SSA) economies as important sourcing destinations. With lower levels of economic development, and significantly lower wages than most other exporting countries,
Luc Fransen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How does foreign direct investment really affect developing countries` growth? [PDF]

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This paper contributes to the literature on foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in two main ways. First, we examine the effect of FDI on economic growth for 44 developing countries over the period 1970 to 2005 using heterogeneous panel ...
Dierk Herzer
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Common Pressures, Uneven Trajectories: The Variegated Europeanisation of Wage Regulation Institutions

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The debate on whether national industrial relations (IR) are experiencing convergence is a long‐standing one. Recently, scholars argue that we are witnessing a neoliberal convergence of national IR, understood as an increase in employers’ discretion.
Vincenzo Maccarrone
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign Direct Investments, Regional Incentives and Regional Attractiveness in Greece [PDF]

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The aim of this paper is to analyze the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) activity in Greece. The paper starts with defining the main FDI terms and giving a general literature review corresponding to the FDI allocation.
Aikaterini Kokkinou, Ioannis Psycharis
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Taking Different Roads to Rome: Protective and Proactive Orientations Towards Institutional Power Resources

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Works councils in Germany possess substantial institutional resources to protect workers' interests. Yet little is known about how these resources are mobilised in practice and why similar outcomes may emerge through different pathways. Drawing on two German firms acquired by Chinese state‐owned enterprises, this study examines how works ...
Tina Miedtank, Johann Fortwengel
wiley   +1 more source

On the Causal Links between FDI and Growth in Developing Countries [PDF]

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We analyse the Granger-causal relationships between foreign direct investment (FDI) and GDP in a sample of 31 developing countries covering the period 1970-2000.
Henrik Hansen, John Rand
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Defining the geographical level of competition: a taxonomy of industry tradability

open access: yesEconomica, EarlyView.
Abstract The paper develops a taxonomy of industry tradability to define the geographical level at which competition takes place. First, it creates a novel dataset that combines production and international trade data for both goods and services industries, defined at a detailed (3‐digit) level of industry aggregation for 15 European countries.
Sara Calligaris   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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