... profitability levels than industries which undertake less R&D and are less concerned with IPR protection. Intellectual property rights Patents Foreign direct investment Multinationals C23 F21 F23 O34 Foreign direct investment (FDI) by multinational corporations (MNCs) sits...

... and minority) owned plants. In addition checks for the existence of spillovers at the industry level due to the presence of multinational corporations. In contrast to earlier studies finds no evidence of spillovers but does find a strong direct effect in the form of higher levels of productivity in firms...

... with educational background and union membership. However, finds no support for the idea that a large multinational will pay wages above the expected level for a given type of worker. Relative Earnings of Permanent and Casual Employees in a Mexican City David Forrest Department of Economics, University of Salford...

...Hamid Beladi; Subarna K. Samanta This article analyses the welfare implications of the customs unions in the presence of multinational corporations for a less than fully employed small open economy. The traditional two‐sector model,with a specific factor for the multinational corporation...

... Service of the US. © MCB UP Limited 1989 ACCOUNTS MANAGEMENT Ireland Taxation Multinationals Value analysis Statistics Journal of Economic Studies 16,3 40 Transfer Pricing: Some Empirical Evidence from Ireland by J.C. Stewart Trinity College, Dublin For many years Ireland has operated...