Holger Görg

Research Fellow

Kiel Institute for the World Economy

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Research Interests

Holger Görg is Professor of International Economics at Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. He is also a Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy at Nottingham, and an Associated Researcher at the Tuborg Research Centre for Globalisation and Firms at Aarhus University. Before joining Kiel he held appointments at Nottingham University, the University of Ulster at Jordanstown and University College Cork. He completed a Ph.D. in Economics in 1999 at the University of Dublin, Trinity College. In 2009 he received the Gossen Award from the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik).

His main research interests are in applied international trade issues, in particular related to foreign direct investment, international outsourcing, trade and labour markets. He has published a number of papers in international journals, including The Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Canadian Journal of Economics, and Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 2002.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2453
Employment Effects of Privatisation and Foreign Acquisition of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Yundan Gong, Holger Görg, Sara Maioli
published in: International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2007, 14(2), 197-214
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. 2267
Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Sourafel Girma, Yundan Gong, Holger Görg
revised version published as 'What determines innovation activity in Chinese state-owned enterprises? The role of foreign direct investment' in: World Development, 2009, 37 (4), 866-873
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. 1606
Do Government Subsidies Stimulate Training Expenditure? Microeconometric Evidence from Plant Level Data
Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2006, 72(4), 860-876
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1372
Does Outsourcing Increase Profitability?
Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley
published in: Economic and Social Review, 2004, 35(3), 267-288
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1249
International Outsourcing and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand in the United Kingdom
Alexander Hijzen, Holger Görg, Robert C. Hine
published in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (506), 860-878
IZA Discussion Paper No. 982
Winners and Losers: Fragmentation, Trade and Wages Revisited
Ingo Geishecker, Holger Görg
revised version published as 'Winners and losers: A micro-level analysis of international outsourcing and wages' in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2008, 41(1), 243-270
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. 903
Evaluating the Causal Effects of Foreign Acquisition on Domestic Skilled and Unskilled Wages
Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg
revised version published as 'Evaluating the foreign ownership wage premium using a difference-in-differences matching approach' in: Journal of International Economics, 2007, 72(1), 97-112
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