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Staying home or moving away? The effect of restructuring on employment in multinational enterprises

Abraham, Filip; Goesaert, Tim; Konings, Jozef (Algemeen secretariaat – Steunpunt beleidsrelevant Onderzoek Fiscaliteit & Begroting, 2012-01)

This paper analyzes the geographic dispersion of employment restructuring in multinational enterprises, where we distinguish between headquarters and geographically dispersed affili- ates. To this end, we use data of 255 ...
The effect of globalization on union bargaining and price-cost margins of firms

Abraham, Filip; Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn (LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, 2007-01)

In recent years, Europe has witnessed an accelerated process of economic integration. Trade barriers were removed, the euro was introduced and ten new member states have joined the European Union. This paper analyzes how ...
The firm size distribution and inter-industry diversification

Hutchinson, John; Konings, Jozef; Paul Walsh, Patrick (UCD GEARY INSTITUTE, 2009-08)

We show that the stylized facts of the Firm Size Distribution (FSD) by age cohorts, as shown in Cabral and Mata (2003), bind within 4-digit manufacturing industries in the UK and Belgium. As in Klepper and Thompson (2006) ...
The impact of training on productivity and wages: firm level evidence

Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn (Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2009-09)

This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for estimating production functions ...
Trade liberalization, intermediate inputs and productivity: evidence from Indonesia

Amiti, Mary; Konings, Jozef (Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2005-06)

This paper estimates the effects of trade liberalization on plant productivity. In contrast to previous studies, we distinguish between productivity gains arising from lower tariffs on final goods relative to those on ...