Foreign-owned plants and job security

We investigate the hypothesis that workers in foreign-owned plants face greater job insecurity than those in domestic-owned plants. Using linked employeremployee data from Germany, we examine whether foreign-owned plants are more likely to close down, and whether workers in foreign-owned plants face...

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Volume:	148
Main Author:	Martyn Andrews Lutz Bellmann Thorsten Schank Richard Upward
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	Berlin/Heidelberg Springer 01.04.2012 Springer-Verlag SPRINGER
published in:	Review of world economics Vol. 148; no. 1; pp. 89 - 117
ORCID:	0000-0003-1504-7728
Data of publication:	20120401
ISSN:	1610-2878 1610-2886
EISSN:	1610-2886
Discipline:	Social Sciences (General) Business Economics International Relations
Subjects:	Productivity Job security Employment Plant closings Standard error Wages Apprenticeships Foreign ownership Plant age Empirical evidence Foreign-owned plants C41 Economics general F23 J63 Worker separations Duration modelling International Economics Plant closure Economics / Management Science Economics Business & Economics International Relations Social Sciences Economic aspects Evaluation Foreign corporations Germany FIRM SURVIVAL ENTRY TURNOVER Worker separations Plant closure Foreign-owned plants GERMANY WORKS COUNCILS Duration modelling GROWTH INVESTMENT MULTINATIONALS MANUFACTURING-INDUSTRIES EXIT
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Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2012 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS