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37 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13668
The Effect on Foreign Direct Investment of Membership in the European Union
Randolph Luca Bruno, Nauro F. Campos, Saul Estrin
forthcoming in: Journal of Common Market Studies
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13422
Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations
Girum Abebe, Margaret McMillan, Michel Serafinelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13040
Wage Gains from Foreign Ownership: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
János Köllő, István Boza, László Balázsi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12860
Refugees and Foreign Direct Investment: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from U.S. Resettlements
Anna Maria Mayda, Christopher Parsons, Han Pham, Pierre-Louis Vézina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11154
Foreign Ownership and Intra-Firm Union Density in Germany
Uwe Jirjahn
revised version forthcoming in: Economic and Industrial Democracy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10897
Do Environmental Regulations Effect FDI Decisions? The Pollution Haven Hypothesis Revisited
Haeyeon Yoon, Almas Heshmati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10097
The End of Cheap Labour: Are Foreign Investors Leaving China?
Julian Donaubauer, Christian Dreger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8705
Field Experiments in Strategy Research
Aaron K. Chatterji, Michael Findley, Nathan M. Jensen, Stephan Meier, Daniel Nielson
published in: Strategic Management Journal, 2016, 37 (1), 116–132,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8541
Earnings and Employment in Foreign-Owned Firms
David C. Maré, Lynda Sanderson, Richard Fabling
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8509
Estimating Direct and Indirect Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Firm Productivity in the Presence of Interactions between Firms
Sourafel Girma, Yundan Gong, Holger Görg, Sandra Lancheros
published in: Journal of International Economics, 2015, 95 (1), 157-169
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8507
European Innovation Dynamics and US Economic Impact: Theory and Empirical Analysis
Paul J. J. Welfens, Tony Irawan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7796
Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship: Blessing or Curse?
Seçil Hülya Danakol, Saul Estrin, Paul Reynolds, Utz Weitzel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7543
Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Wim Naudé, Adam Szirmai, Alejandro Lavopa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7458
Reexamining the Conditional Effect of Foreign Direct Investment
Randolph Luca Bruno, Nauro F. Campos
published in: Multinational Business Review, 2018, 26 (2), 126-144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6859
Media Slant Against Foreign Owners: Downsizing
Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120 , 97-106
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6009
Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity: Are Services Firms Different?
Joachim Wagner
published in: Service Industries Journal, 2014, 34 (1), 24-37
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5911
Three New Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis When Environmental Regulation is Endogenous
Daniel L. Millimet, Jayjit Roy
published as 'Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis When Environmental Regulation is Endogenous' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31 (4), 652-677
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5259
Do Foreign-Owned Firms Provide Better Working Conditions Than Their Domestic Counterparts? A Comparative Analysis
Alexander Hijzen, Pedro S. Martins, Thorsten Schank, Richard Upward
published as 'Foreign-owned firms around the world: A comparative analysis of wages and employment at the micro-level' in: European Economic Review, 2013, 60, 170-188
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4474
Openness and Technological Innovation in East Asia: Have They Increased the Demand for Skills?
Rita K. Almeida
published in: Asia-Pacific Development Journal, 2010, 17 (1), 63-96
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3634
Does Openness to International Financial Flows Contribute to Productivity Growth?
M. Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad, Marco E. Terrones
published in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2009, 28 (4), 554-580
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3607
Paying More to Hire the Best? Foreign Firms, Wages and Worker Mobility
Pedro S. Martins
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49 (2), 349–363
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3542
Foreign Ownership, Employment and Wages in Brazil: Evidence from Acquisitions, Divestments and Job Movers
Pedro S. Martins, Luiz A. Esteves
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3332
Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America
Nauro F. Campos, Yuko Kinoshita
revised version published in: IMF Staff Papers, 2010, 57 (2), 326-365
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3218
The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment Flows to the Federal Region of Kurdistan
Almas Heshmati, Rhona Davis
published in: Heshmati, The Economy of Southern Kurdistan, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3208
Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research: With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan
Almas Heshmati
published in: Tocha (ed.), Development Economics Research Trends, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3125
Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials Using LEED from Hungary, 1986–2003
John S. Earle, Álmos Telegdy
published in: Analysis of Firms and Employees - Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (F. Andersson, S. Bender, J. Lane, K. Shaw, and T. von Wachter, eds.), NBER and University of Chicago, 2008.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2336
Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Wage Inequality? An Empirical Investigation
Paolo Figini, Holger Görg
published in: World Economy, 2011, 34 (9), 1455-1475
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1611
Multinationals and Plant Exit: Evidence from Chile
Roberto Alvarez, Holger Görg
published in: International Review of Economics and Finance, 2009, 18 (1), 45-51
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1457
Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Klara Sabirianova Peter, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (4), 981-999
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1332
Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
Klara Sabirianova Peter, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (2-3), 291–302
IZA Discussion Paper No. 944
Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Direct Investment?
Holger Görg, David Greenaway
published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2004, 19(2), 171-197
IZA Discussion Paper No. 845
Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Note on Employment Protection, Domestic Anchorage, and FDI
Gerda Dewit, Holger Görg, Catia Montagna
published as 'Should I stay or should I go? Foreign direct investment, employment protection and domestic anchorage' in: Review of World Economics, 145 (1), 2009, 93-110
IZA Discussion Paper No. 793
Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments
Tapio K. Palokangas
revised version published as "Investment, Expropriation and Unionization" in: Economics of Governance, 2009, 10 (1), 27-42
IZA Discussion Paper No. 785
The Effects of Foreign Owned Firms on the Labor Market
Rita K. Almeida
published in: Journal of International Economics, 2007, 72 (1), 75-96
IZA Discussion Paper No. 706
Blessing or Curse? Domestic Plants' Survival and Employment Prospects after Foreign Acquisitions
Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg
published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2004, 50 (1), 89-110
IZA Discussion Paper No. 665
Fancy a Stay at the 'Hotel California'? Foreign Direct Investment, Taxation and Firing Costs
Holger Görg
revised version published as 'Fancy a stay at the 'Hotel California'? in: Kyklos, 2005, 58 (4), 519-535
IZA Discussion Paper No. 591
Spillovers From Foreign Firms Through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation
Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2005, 107 (4), 693-709
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