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Evidence on Determinants of Foreign Investments: the Case of Three European Regions. A revised Version [PDF]

This study aims at analysing the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows for a group of European regions. The originality of this approach lies in the use of disaggregated data by sector at regional level.
Lionel Artige, Rosela Nicolini
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Globalization, internal migration, and public goods provision in emerging economies

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Globalization can introduce new employment opportunities to emerging economies in multinational corporations and exporting firms. Who is best positioned to benefit, and what are the political consequences for “left behind” areas? We argue that primarily advantaged groups seize these opportunities through internal migration toward centers of ...
Benjamin Helms, Junghyun Lim
wiley   +1 more source

Examining the Regional Aspect of Foreign Direct Investment to Developing Countries [PDF]

This paper applies a general-to-specific analysis to detect regularities in the driving forces of foreign direct investment (FDI) that can explain why some regions are more attractive to foreign investors than others.
Eva Rytter Sunesen
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Migrating to stay or commuting to work? How fairness perceptions and exposure shape attitudes toward labor migration

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Existing literature posits that attitudes toward immigration are shaped by the impact of migrants on native workers' wages and employment, as well as by various other material, cultural, and social concerns. However, empirically disentangling these influences can be challenging.
Lena Maria Schaffer, Gabriele Spilker
wiley   +1 more source

Productivity Effects of FDI Inflows: A Literature Review [PDF]

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows have increased substantially in the past two decades. These developments have motivated the appearance of a large number of empirical papers that test the expected benefits that FDI inflows are assumed to bring to ...
Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
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Agrarian counterpoint

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract In Colombia's northeastern borderlands, agrarian economies shape how disease risk and stigma are understood and managed. As shown in ethnographic fieldwork in and around the Catatumbo region, cutaneous leishmaniasis—a sandfly‐transmitted disease that produces chronic skin lesions—appears in two radically different guises across adjacent ...
Javier Lezaun, Lina Pinto‐García
wiley   +1 more source

Investment attractiveness in BRICS+ economies: Evaluating business environment reforms, institutional quality, and macroeconomic factors. [PDF]

PLoS One
Tachega MA, Wang J, Chen Y, Ahmed R, Opoku EO, Mintah C, Bart-Plange L.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Support for foreign direct investment inflows in Serbia

Economic Annals-ХХI, 2018
Branislav Dudić, Zdenka Dudić, Ján Smoleň, Vladimir Mirković   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

The Mobile Core: Perpetuating Tourism Leakage Through the Socioecological Fix in South Korea

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT By adopting the socioecological fix concept, this study aims to examine the spatial dynamics of tourism leakage. An ethnographic examination of an ecotourism project on Jeju Island, South Korea was conducted for 18 months from 2011 to 2013.
Souyeon Nam
wiley   +1 more source