Essays on foreign direct investment: some missing pieces

<p>This thesis contains three chapters. All are based on firm-level data for Chile between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s, and all concern the effects of foreign direct investment: the first and second chapters are about the gender balance of employment and training, respectively, while the t...

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Autor Principal: Fernandez-Delgado, K
Outros autores: Javorcik, B
Formato: Thesis
Idioma:English
Publicado: 2018
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Summary:<p>This thesis contains three chapters. All are based on firm-level data for Chile between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s, and all concern the effects of foreign direct investment: the first and second chapters are about the gender balance of employment and training, respectively, while the third analyses how productivity spillovers depend on distance from the productivity frontier.</p>