Should I Stay or Should I Go? Foreign Direct Investment, Employment Protection and Domestic Anchorage

This paper examines theoretically and empirically how employment protection legislation affects location decisions of multinational. We depart from the "conventional wisdom" by examining not only the effect of protection on inward foreign direct investment (FDI), but also a country's...

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Volume:	145
Main Author:	Gerda Dewit Holger Görg Catia Montagna
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	Berlin/Heidelberg Springer 01.04.2009 Springer-Verlag SPRINGER Springer Verlag
published in:	Review of world economics Vol. 145; no. 1; pp. 93 - 110
Data of publication:	20090401
ISSN:	1610-2878 1610-2886
EISSN:	1610-2886
Discipline:	Social Sciences (General) Business Economics International Relations
Subjects:	Labor costs Capital costs Employment Labor markets Employment indices Foreign direct investments Gross domestic product Financial investments Variable costs Cost efficiency Uncertainty Economics general J80 F23 Foreign direct investment International Economics Domestic anchorage D80 Employment protection Economics / Management Science Economics Business & Economics International Relations Social Sciences Labor market Foreign investments Forecasts and trends Foreign direct investment Uncertainty Domestic anchorage Employment protection J80 F23 D80
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