The Distributional impact of dams: Evidence from cropland productivity in Africa (2009)
We examine the distributional impact of major dams on cropland productivity in Africa. As our unit of analysis we use a scientifically based spatial breakdown of the continent that allows one to...
The Economic Growth Impact of Hurricanes: Evidence from US Coastal counties (2009)
We estimate for the first time the impact of hurricane strikes on local economic growth rates and how this is reflected in more aggregate growth patterns. To this end we assemble a panel data set of...
The Economic Growth Impact of Hurricanes: Evidence from US Coastal counties (2009)
We estimate for the first time the impact of hurricane strikes on local economic growth rates and how this is reflected in more aggregate growth patterns. To this end we assemble a panel data set of...
The Distributional impact of dams: Evidence from cropland productivity in Africa (2009)
We examine the distributional impact of major dams on cropland productivity in Africa. As our unit of analysis we use a scientifically based spatial breakdown of the continent that allows one to...
We examine the impact of hurricane strikes on the construction industry in US counties. To this end we use a measure of hurricane destruction derived from a wind field model and historical hurricane...
The impact of hurricane strikes on local cropland productivity: Evidence from the Carribean (2009)
We empirically estimate the impact of hurricane strikes on local crop productivity in the Caribbean region. To this end we first identify local cropland at 1km2 geographical units via Global Land...
We examine the impact of hurricane strikes on the construction industry in US counties. To this end we use a measure of hurricane destruction derived from a wind field model and historical hurricane...
The impact of hurricane strikes on local cropland productivity: Evidence from the Carribean (2009)
We empirically estimate the impact of hurricane strikes on local crop productivity in the Caribbean region. To this end we first identify local cropland at 1km2 geographical units via Global Land...
Electricity, carbon and weather in France: where do we stand ? (2008)
Chemarin, Sophie, Heinen, Andreas, Strobl, Eric
As a tool to fight long run changes in climate the European Union explicitly introduced the emission trading scheme (EU ETS) on January 1, 2005, which aimed at reducing carbon emission by 8% by 2012,...
Electricity, carbon and weather in France: where do we stand ? (2008)
Chemarin, Sophie, Heinen, Andreas, Strobl, Eric
As a tool to fight long run changes in climate the European Union explicitly introduced the emission trading scheme (EU ETS) on January 1, 2005, which aimed at reducing carbon emission by 8% by 2012,...
Economic development and losses due to natural disasters: the role of risk (2008)
Schumacher, Ingmar, Strobl, Eric
We show that the relationship between wealth and economic losses due to natural disasters is strongly linked to disaster risk. We first build an analytical model that demonstrates how countries that...
Economic development and losses due to natural disasters: the role of risk (2008)
Schumacher, Ingmar, Strobl, Eric
We show that the relationship between wealth and economic losses due to natural disasters is strongly linked to disaster risk. We first build an analytical model that demonstrates how countries that...
European Commission Training and Mobility of Researchers (2007)
Salvador Barrios, Documento De Trabajo, Jacques Mélitz, Patrick Messerlin, Eric Strobl, Ellen Voigt, ...
* This work has benefited from comments received during visits
Explaining Firms ’ Export Behaviour: The Role of R&D and Spillovers* by (2007)
Salvador Barrios, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl, Documento De Trabajo
to whom we are also grateful.
EXPLORING THE LINK BETWEEN LOCAL AND GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS (2007)
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Heinen, Andreas, Strobl, Eric
We measure the effect of R&D spillovers on plant productivity by taking account of (i) the national origin of the spillovers, (ii) the mechanism through which spillovers may flow (FDI and/or...
Moral Hazard and the Composition of Transfers: Theory with an Application to Foreign Aid (2007)
Amegashie, J. Atsu, Ouattara, Bazoumanna, Strobl, Eric
The paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of a donor’s choice of the composition of unrestricted and in-kind/restricted transfers to a recipient and how this composition is adjusted...
Polluting technologies and sustainable economic development (2006)
Bertinelli, Luisito, Strobl, Eric, Zou, Benteng
We study how the import of older and more polluting technologies alters the relationship between output and environmental quality in developing countries within a vintage capital framework. Our...
Sustainable economic development and the environment : theory and evidence (2005)
Bertinelli, Luisito, Strobl, Eric, Zou, Benteng
The relationship between growth and pollution is studied through a vintage capital model, where new technology is more environmentally friendly. We find that once the optimal scrapping age of...
Functional Specialisation and the Location of Multinational Firms in the Enlarged Europe ∗ (2005)
Fabrice Defever, Céline Azemar, Gábor Békés, Matthieu Crozet, Gilles Duranton, Fabian Gouret, ...
Despite the recent development of location theory, the role of services surrounding production activity has been largely understudied. We propose to analyze the location of multinational firms ’...
The dynamics of Agglomeration: Evidence from Ireland and Portugal (2004)
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Strobl, Eric, Teixeira, Antonio Carlos
This paper analyses and compares the dynamics of agglomeration in Portuguese and Irish manufacturing industries between 1985 and 1998 implementing Dumais, Ellison and Glaeser (2002)'s methodology....
Coagglomeration and Growth (2004)
Bertinelli, Luisito, Barrios, Salavdor, Strobl, Eric
We study the coagglomeration of domestic plants and foreign multinationals and the impact of this on domestic plant growth using data for Irish manufacturing. To this end we make use of the index...
The Impact of Climatic Change on Agricultural Production: Is it different for Africa? (2004)
Barrios, Salvador, Ouattara, Bazoumanna, Strobl, Eric
This paper examines the impact of climatic change on the level of total agricultural production of Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) and non-Sub-Sahara Africa (NSSA) developing countries. In doing so it uses a...
Dry Times in Africa: Rainfall and Africa's Growth Performance (2003)
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Strobl, Eric
While there have been some references in the literature to the potential role of the general decline in rainfall in sub-Saharan African nations on their poor growth performance relative to other...
Why do rates of β-convergence differ? A meta-regression analysis (2003)
Dobson, Stephen, Ramlogan, Carlyn, Strobl, Eric
The empirical convergence literature reports many different estimates of β-convergence. Narrative reviews of the convergence literature suggest possible reasons for the variation in β across...
Cross-country growth and convergence: a semi-parametric analysis (2003)
Dobson, Stephen, Ramlogan, Carlyn, Strobl, Eric
This paper shows that convergence occurs among countries with very low and very high initial incomes, indicating that convergence clubs characterize the cross-country growth process. The results...
INDUSTRY MOBILITY AND GEOGRAPHIC CONCENTRATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION (2003)
We study the pattern of geographic concentration of industries in EU countries and regions between 1972 and 1995. We find that changes in concentration levels were mainly due to industry mobility...
Efficiency Spillovers from Foreign Direct (2002)
Investment In The, Salvador Barrios, Sophia Dimelis, Helen Louri, Eric Strobl, Documento De Trabajo
Despite a growing number of empirical studies on efficiency spillovers arising from the presence of multinational firms for a number of countries, general conclusions on this issue have been...
Industry Mobility and Concentration (2002)
In The European, Documento De Trabajo, Fedea D. T, Salvador Barrios, Salvador Barrios, Eric Strobl, ...
We study the pattern of concentration of industries in EU countries and regions between 1972 and 1995. We find that changes in concentration levels were mainly due to industry mobility rather than...
Multinational Enterprises and New Trade Theory: Evidence for the Convergence Hypothesis
Salvador Barrios, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
According to the 'convergence hypothesis' multinational companies will tend to displace national firms and trade as total market size increases and as countries converge in relative size, factor...
Explaining Firms' Export Behaviour: The Role of R&D and Spillovers
Salvador Barrios, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
We examine the importance of a firm's own R&D activity and intra-sectoral spillovers on the decision to export and the export intensity using firm level panel data for Spain for the period 1990 to...
Salvador Barrios, Sophia Dimelis, Helen Louri, Eric Strobl
Despite a growing number of empirical studies on efficiency spillovers arising from the presence of multinational firms for a number of countries, general conclusions on this issue have been...
Learning by Doing and Spillovers: Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data
We extend the Bahk and Gort (1993) approach of testing for the impact of learning by doing (LBD) on firm productivity using data on a panel of Spanish manufacturing firms over the 1990-1998 period....
Industry Mobility and Concentration in the European Union
We study the pattern of concentration of industries in EU countries and regions between 1972 and 1995. We find that changes in concentration levels were mainly due to industry mobility rather than...
Do employers use education as a signal for ability in developing countries? Evidence from Ghana
This study investigates whether employers in developing countries use education as a signal for employees' productivity using data for Ghana manufacturing. Evidence is found supportive of this for...
Exports, International Investment, and Plant Performance : Evidence from a Non-Parametric Test
Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle...
Salvador Barrios, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
This paper analyses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the development of local firms. We focus on two likely effects of FDI: a competition effect which deters entry of domestic firms...
Spillovers from Foreign Firms through Worker Mobility : An Empirical Investigation
While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from multinationals this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. The...
Coagglomeration and Spillovers
Eric Strobl, Luisito Bertinelli, Salvador Barrios
We study the coagglomeration of domestic plants and foreign multinationals and the impact of this on domestic plant productivity and employment using data for Irish manufacturing. Relying on a...
Climatic Change and Rural-Urban Migration: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa
Eric Strobl, Luisito Bertinelli, Salvador Barrios
We investigate the role that climatic change has played in the pattern of urbanization in sub-Saharan countries compared to the rest of the developing world. To this end we assemble a cross-country...
Gender Pay Differentials and Equality Legislation in the Republic of Ireland
Mark Cassidy, Eric Strobl, Robert Thornton
The authors analyze Ireland's experience with equality legislation since the passage of the Anti-Discrimination (Pay) Act of 1974 and the Employment Equality Act of 1977. After providing a detailed...
The Evolution of the Firm Size Distribution and Nationality of Ownerhship
Salvador Barrios, Holger Gorg, Eric Strobl
It has recently been shown that the firm size distribution is initially skewed to the right and then evolves over time to become more lognormal, and argued that this is likely due to firms initially...
Grant Support and Exporting Activity
Görg, Holger, Henry, Michael, Strobl, Eric
This paper investigates whether government support can act to increase exporting activity. We use a uniquely rich data set on Irish manufacturing plants and employ an empirical strategy that combines...
COMPULSORY VOTING AND GOVERNMENT SPENDING
In a recent issue of Economics and Politics Crain and Leonard (1993) described the effects of compulsory voting on government spending. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, problems in Crain...
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Strobl, Eric
We study the coagglomeration of domestic plants and foreign multinationals and the impact of this on domestic plant growth using data for Irish manufacturing. To this end we make use of the index...
Why Do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? The Role of On-the-Job Training
Görg, Holger, Strobl, Eric, Walsh, Frank
While foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers, the causes of this remain unresolved. In a two-period...
Multinational Enterprises and New Trade Theory: Evidence for the Convergence Hypothesis
Salvador Barrios, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
According to the 'convergence hypothesis' multinational companies will tend to displace national firms and trade as total market size increases and as countries converge in relative size, factor...
Moral Hazard and the Composition of Transfers: Theory with an Application to Foreign Aid
Amegashie, J. Atsu, Ouattara, Bazoumanna, Strobl, Eric
The paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of a donor’s choice of the composition of unrestricted and in-kind/restricted transfers to a recipient and how this composition is adjusted...
THE DETERMINANTS OF FIRM START-UP SIZE: A COMPARISON OF IRELAND AND PORTUGAL
Holger Görg, Eric Strobl, Frances Ruane
In this paper we provide empirical evidence on the determinants of firm start-up size using data for the manufacturing sector in Ireland, and compare our results with recent findings for Portuguese...
Regional Employment Performance of Irish Industry, 1972-96: A Job Flow Analysis
Regional goals have always played an important part in Irish industrial policy. This paper examines the employment performance of two sub-regions (designated and non-designated areas) as defined by...
Productivity Effects of International Outsourcing: Evidence from Plant Level Data
Görg, Holger, Hanley, Aoife, Strobl, Eric
We investigate the impact of international outsourcing on productivity using plant level data for Irish manufacturing. Specifically, we distinguish the effect of outsourcing of materials from...
GEOGRAPHIC CONCENTRATION AND ESTABLISHMENT SCALE: AN EXTENSION USING PANEL DATA
Salvador Barrios, Luisito Bertinelli, Eric Strobl
In a recent study, Holmes and Stevens (2002) identify for the first time the positive relationship that exists between establishment scale and local industry concentration using a large...
The Formal Sector Wage Premium and Firm Size
Eliane Badaoui, Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh
We show theoretically that when larger firms pay higher wages and are more likely to be caught defaulting on labour taxes, then large high-wage firms will be in the formal sector and small low-wage...
Is There An Informal Employment Wage Penalty? Evidence from South Africa
Eliane Badaoui, Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh
We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector. To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accurately distinguish...
Creating Jobs Through Public Subsidies: An Empirical Analysis
Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh
This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant level data for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants and their complete...
The Impact of Social Security Reforms on Female Unemployment Compensation Claimants in Ireland
Michael Harrison, Eric Strobl, Patrick Walsh
Ireland, EU legislation, social security reforms, unemployment,
Why Do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? The Role of On-the-Job Training
Görg, Holger, Strobl, Eric, Walsh, Frank
Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers in both developed and developing countries alike. Although a...
Efficiency Wages and Effort: Are Hard Jobs Better?
Efficiency wage theory predicts that the wage per unit of effort will be lower in intensively monitored sectors. This wage differential will increase in effort. Using employer-employee matched data...
This paper investigates whether education is used as a signaling device for worker productivity in developing countries. To do such we employ a simple test of employer learning on Ghana manufacturing...
Multinational Companies, Backward Linkages and Labour Demand Elasticities
Holger Görg, Michael Henry, Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh
This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals...
This paper examines whether multinational companies are more footloose than their domestic counterparts in the host country, using data for the Irish manufacturing sector. First, we investigate...
Spillovers from foreign firms through worker mobility: An empirical investigation
While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black...
Determinants of Firm Start-Up Size: An Application of Quantile Regression for Ireland.
Gorg, Holger, Strobl, Eric, Ruane, Frances
In this paper we provide empirical evidence on the determinants of firm start-up size using data for the manufacturing sector in Ireland, and compare our results with recent findings for Portuguese...
We examine whether multinational companies are more footloose than their domestic counterparts in the host country, using data for the Irish manufacturing sector. First, we investigate whether plant...
Explaining Firms' Export Behaviour: R&D, Spillovers and the Destination Market
Salvador Barrios, Holger Goerg, Eric Strobl
We examine the importance of a firm's own R&D activity and intra-sectoral spillovers on the decision to export and the export intensity using firm level panel data for Spain for the period 1990-98....
Multinational Companies, Technology Spillovers and Plant Survival
How does the presence of multinational companies affect plant survival in the host country? We postulate that multinational companies can impact positively on plant survival through technology...
Spillovers from Foreign Firms through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation
While there is a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from multinationals, this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. The new...
Multinationals and Training: Some Evidence from Irish Manufacturing Industries
Frank Barry, Holger G–rg, Eric Strobl
This paper sets out to analyse the effect of plant and sectoral level characteristics on the provision of training to employees using plant level data for Irish manufacturing. There is no clear...
KNOWLEDGE ACCUMULATION, AND PRODUCTIVITY: EVIDENCE FROM PLANT-LEVEL DATA FOR IRELAND
Mark Cassidy, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
This paper investigates whether knowledge accumulating activities, such as exporting, R&D, or worker training, can enhance plants' productivity. To this end, we use plant-level panel data for Irish...
Employer and Employee Ignorance in Developing Countries: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago
The authors examine the degree of employer and employee ignorance about reservation and offer wages in Trinidad and Tobago and find this to be considerable. On average employers pay more than 26%...
The Environmental Performance of Firms: The Role of Foreign Ownership, Training, and Experience
In this paper we extend the debate on the environmental implications of foreign direct investment in developing countries by examining a new mechanism through which foreign influence can affect the...
Grant Support and Exporting Activity
Holger Görg, Michael Henry, Eric Strobl
This paper investigates whether government support can act to increase exporting activity. We use a uniquely rich data set on Irish manufacturing plants and employ an empirical strategy that combines...
Multinational Companies and Entrant Start-up Size: Evidence from Quantile Regressions
Entry, multinational companies, regression quantiles, start-up size,
Is R & D Financially Constrained? Theory and Evidence from Irish Manufacturing
Spiros Bougheas, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
Financial constraints, R & D,
Moral Hazard and the Composition of Transfers: Theory with an Application to Foreign Aid
J. Atsu Amegashie, Bazoumana Ouattara, Eric Strobl
The paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of a donor’s choice of the composition of unrestricted and in-kind/restricted transfers to a recipient and how this composition is adjusted...
Productivity effects of international outsourcing: evidence from plant-level data
Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley, Eric Strobl
We investigate the impact of international outsourcing on productivity using plant-level data for Irish manufacturing. Specifically, we distinguish the effect of outsourcing of materials from...
The Effect of R&D Subsidies on Private R&D
This paper investigates the relationship between government support for R&D and R&D expenditure financed privately by firms using a comprehensive plant level data set for the manufacturing sector in...
Spillovers From Foreign Firms Through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation
While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black...
Relative Wages, Openness and Skill-Biased Technological Change
Standard neo-classical trade theory predicts that trade liberalisation should cause a fall in wage inequality in developing countries through a decrease in the relative demand for skilled labour....
Defining Unemployment in Developing Countries: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) argues for relaxing the standard definition of unemployment in developing countries by eliminating the requirement that a person be actively searching for...
Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries
Strobl, Eric, Thornton, Robert
Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally...
Getting It Right: Employment Subsidy or Minimum Wage?
In monopsony models of the labour market either a minimum wage or an employment subsidy financed by a lump sum tax on profits can achieve the efficient level of employment and output. Incorporating...
Government Grants, Plant Survival and Employment Growth: A Micro-Econometric Analysis
Girma, Sourafel, Görg, Holger, Strobl, Eric
In this paper we analyse the impact of governmental grant provision on plant performance. To this end we utilise rich information derived from three data sources for the manufacturing sector in...
This paper examines whether financial assistance provided by government induces firms to spend more of their own funds on training expenditures, using plant level data for the Republic of Ireland. We...
Multinational Companies and Productivity Spillovers: A Meta-analysis.
This paper presents a meta-analysis of the literature on multinational companies and productivity spillovers. By collecting information from a sample of published and unpublished papers on the impact...
The Dynamics of Chart Success in the U.K. Pre-Recorded Popular Music Industry
In this paper we investigate the dynamics of chartsuccess in the U.K. pre-recorded popular music industryover the period 1980 to 1993 using the British albumchart listings. We find that the incidence...
Learning by Doing and Spillovers: Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data
In this paper we extend the Bahk and Gort (1993) (Journal of Political Economy, 101, 561–583) approach of testing for the impact of learning by doing (LBD) on firm productivity using data on a...
Subsidizing Industry: An Empirical Analysis of Irish Manufacturing
Irish industrial policy makers have a long history of extensively using grant subsidies in order to encourage the creation of jobs in Irish manufacturing sectors. In this paper we empirically...
The Evolution of the Distribution of Plant Size: Evidence from Luxemburg
Luisito Bertinelli, Olivier Cardi, Teoman Pamukçu, Eric Strobl
In a recent paper, [Cabral, L. M. B. and J. Mata, 2003, American Economic Review, 93, 1075–1090] using Portuguese manufacturing data have shown for the first time that the plant size distribution...
This paper argues that multinational companies can impact positively on the survival of plants in the host country through technology spillovers. We study this effect empirically by estimating a Cox...
Multinational Enterprises and New Trade Theory: Evidence for the Convergence Hypothesis
Barrios, Salvador, Görg, Holger, Strobl, Eric
According to the ‘convergence hypothesis’, multinational companies will tend to displace national firms and trade as total market size increases and as countries converge in relative size, factor...
Foreign Direct Investment, Agglomerations and Demonstration Effects: An Empirical Investigation
Barry, Frank, Görg, Holger, Strobl, Eric
Many previous studies have shown that the localisation of firms can be an important factor in attracting new foreign direct investment into a host country. What has been missing in this literature...
Multinational Companies and Indigenous Development: An Empirical Analysis
This Paper presents an empirical study of the effect of foreign multinational companies on the development of indigenous firms in the host country. Our starting point is a recent paper by Markusen...
This Paper examines whether multinational companies are more ‘footloose’ than their domestic counterparts in the host country, using data for the Irish manufacturing sector. First, we investigate...
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Strobl, Eric
Using plant-level data for the Irish manufacturing sector over the period 1983-98, we study the coagglomeration of domestic plants and foreign multinationals in Ireland. To this end we make use of...
Capital Structure and Labour Demand: Further Evidence.
This paper provides further evidence on the relationship between a firm's capital structure and its labour demand. This study estimates dynamic labour demand equations using firm-level panel data for...
FRANK BARRY, HOLGER GÖRG, ERIC STROBL
There is a large literature on the positive spillovers frequently thought to be associated with inward foreign direct investment. Aitken et al. (1996) identify several cases, however, where inward...
Employment dynamics in foreign and domestic plants: Evidence from Irish manufacturing
In this paper we investigate the driving factors behind the diverse employment performances of indigenous and foreign-owned (multinational) plants in Ireland. Examining aggregate job creation and job...
The Incidence of Visible Underemployment: Evidence for Trinidad and Tobago
This article presents an empirical analysis of the incidence of visible underemployment in Trinidad and Tobago. Visible underemployment consists of workers who work less than the normal duration of...
Do Smaller Firms Pay Less in the Caribbean? The Case of Trinidad and Tobago
This article constitutes the first study of the employer size wage effect for a Caribbean country, namely the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Using a rich micro-level data set we estimate the firm...
Trends and Determinants of the Geographic Dispersion of Irish Manufacturing Activity, 1926- 1996
Strobl E. (2004) Trends and determinants of the geographic dispersion of Irish manufacturing activity, 1926-1996, Reg. Studies 38 , 191-205. This paper documents the trends in localization of the...
Foreign direct investment, agglomerations, and demonstration effects: An empirical investigation
Frank Barry, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
Foreign direct investment, agglomerations, demonstration effects,
Salvador Barrios, Sophia Dimelis, Helen Louri, Eric Strobl
FDI, multinationals, productivity, spillovers,
Why Do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? The Role of On-the-Job Training
Holger Görg, Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh
On-the-job training, foreign-owned firms, wages,
The Economic Growth Impact of Hurricanes: Evidence from US Coastal Counties
We estimate the impact of hurricane strikes on local economic growth rates and how this is reflected in more aggregate growth patterns. To this end we assemble a panel data set of US coastal...
This paper examines whether financial assistance provided by government induces firms to spend more of their own funds on training expenditures, using plant-level data for the Republic of Ireland. We...
The Ambiguous Effect of Minimum Wages on Workers and Total Hours
We model a competitive labour market where firms choose combinations of workers and hours per worker to produce output. If one assumes that the scale of production has no impact on hours per worker,...
Changes in the Gender Wage Gap and The Returns to Firm Specific Human Capital
If employers believe females are more likely to separate from a job than males, efficient cost sharing of on-the-job-training implies that females will have higher returns to tenure. Becker and...
Foreign Direct Investment, Agglomerations and Demonstration Effects - An Empirical Investigation
Frank Barry, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
Many previous studies have shown that the localisation of firms can be an important factor in attracting new foreign direct investment into a host country. What has been missing in this literature...
Bertinelli, Luisito, Strobl, Eric, Zou, Benteng
We study the relationship between economic development and consumption of natural resources using a vintage capital model. Consumption of natural resources is assumed to generate pollution, part of...
The environmental performance of firms: The role of foreign ownership, training, and experience
Cole, Matthew A., Elliott, Robert J.R., Strobl, Eric
In this paper we extend the debate on the environmental implications of foreign direct investment in developing countries by examining a new mechanism through which foreign influence can affect the...
The impact of climatic change on agricultural production: Is it different for Africa?
Barrios, Salvador, Ouattara, Bazoumana, Strobl, Eric
This paper examines the impact of climatic change on the level of total agricultural production of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and non-Sub-Sahara Africa (NSSA) developing countries. In doing so it uses...
Aid, Policy and Growth: Does Aid Modality Matter?
Bazoumana Ouattara, Eric Strobl
Aid, growth, dynamic panel methods,
The Ambiguous Effect of Minimum Wages on Workers and Total Hours
We model a standard competitive labour market where firms choose combinations of workers and hours per worker to produce output. If one assumes that the scale of production has no impact on hours per...
Multinational Companies, Backward Linkages and Labour Demand Elasticities
Holger Görg, Michael Henry, Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh
This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals...
An Equilibrium Search Model of the Informal Sector
Eliane Badaoui, Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh
We use an equilibrium search framework to model a formal- informal sector labour market where the informal sector arises endogenously. In our model large firms will be in the formal sector and pay a...
Foreign direct investment, agglomerations, and demonstration effects: An empirical investigation
Frank Barry, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
Foreign direct investment, agglomerations, demonstration effects,
Job Generation and Regional Industrial Policy in Ireland
Irish industrial policy explicitly encouraged job generation in certain “designated” areas via, amongst other things, preferential grant treatment, job targets and the building of advance...
Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty? Evidence from South Africa
Eliane El Badaoui, Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh
We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector. To this end we use a rich data set on non-self-employed males that allows one to accurately distinguish...
The Re-Building Effect of Hurricanes: Evidence from Employment in the US Construction Industry
We examine the impact of hurricane strikes on the construction industry in US counties. To this end we use a measure of hurricane destruction derived from a wind field model and historical hurricane...
The Role of Educational Choice in Occupational Gender Segregation: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
We analyse the role of educational choice on the degree of occupational segregation in Trinidad and Tobago during a period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in...
Multinationals and regional indigenous development
Salvador Barrios, Luisito Bertinelli, Eric Strobl
F23, R11, R12,
Dry Times in Africa: Rainfall and Africa's Growth Performance
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Strobl, Eric
While there have been some references in the literature to the potential role of the general decline in rainfall in sub-Saharan African nations on their poor growth performance relative to other...
The dynamics of Agglomeration: Evidence from Ireland and Portugal
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Strobl, Eric, Teixeira, Antonio Carlos
This paper analyses and compares the dynamics of agglomeration in Portuguese and Irish manufacturing industries between 1985 and 1998 implementing Dumais, Ellison and Glaeser (2002)'s methodology....
EXPLORING THE LINK BETWEEN LOCAL AND GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS
Barrios, Salvador, Bertinelli, Luisito, Heinen, Andreas, Strobl, Eric
We measure the effect of R&D spillovers on plant productivity by taking account of (i) the national origin of the spillovers, (ii) the mechanism through which spillovers may flow (FDI and/or...
The Impact of Climatic Change on Agricultural Production: Is it different for Africa?
Barrios, Salvador, Ouattara, Bazoumanna, Strobl, Eric
This paper examines the impact of climatic change on the level of total agricultural production of Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) and non-Sub-Sahara Africa (NSSA) developing countries. In doing so it uses a...
Climatic change and rural-urban migration: the case of sub-Saharan Africa
BARRIOS, Salvador, BERTINELLI, Luisito, STROBL, Eric
We investigate the role that climatic change has played in the pattern of urbanization in sub- Saharan African countries compared to the rest of the developing world. To this end we assemble a...
Polluting technologies and sustainable economic development
BERTINELLI, Luisito, STROBL, Eric, ZOU, Benteng
We study how the import of older and more polluting technologies alters the relationship between output and environmental quality in developing countries within a vintage capital framework. Our...
Sustainable economic development and the environment: theory and evidence
BERTINELLI, Luisito, STROBL, Eric, ZOU, Benteng
The relationship between growth and pollution is studied through a vintage capital model, where new technologies are more environmentally friendly. We find that once the optimal scrapping age of...
Creating jobs through public subsidies: An empirical analysis
Girma, Sourafel, Görg, Holger, Strobl, Eric, Walsh, Frank
This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant level data for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants and their complete...
Multinational companies, backward linkages, and labour demand elasticities
Holger Görg, Michael Henry, Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh
This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals...
Multinationals and local indigenous development
BARRIOS, Salvador, BERTINELLI, Luisito, STROBL, Eric
We investigate in how far foreign multinationals have fostered local indigenous development in Ireland. Specifically, we examine whether foreign presence has induced indigenous net plant entry within...
Multinationals' location choice, agglomeration economies and public incentives
BARRIOS, Salvador, GORG, Holger, STROBL, Eric
We study the regional location of multidimensionals in Ireland since the 1970s by focusing on the role played by agglomeration economies and public incentives intent on dispersing industrial activity...
Why do rates of convergence differ ? A meta-regression analysis
DOBSON, Steve, RAMLOGAN, Carlyn, STROBL, Eric
There have been many tests of the convergence hypothesis yielding many diffrent estimates of b (the speed of convergence). Narative reviews of the convergence literature hint at possible reasons for...
Geographic concentration and establishment scale: can panel data tell us more ?
BARRIOS, Salvador, BERTINELLI, Luisito, STROBL, Eric
In a recent study, Holmes and Stevens (2002) identify for the first time a positive relationship that exists between establishment scale and local industry concentration using a large cross-sectional...
Industry mobility and geographic concentration in the European Union
BARRIOS, Salvador, STROBL, Eric
We study the pattern of geographic concentration of industries in EU countries and regions between 1972 and 1995. We find that changes in concentration levels were mainly due to industry mobility...
Dry times in Africa: Rainfall and Africa's growth performance
BARRIOS, Salvador, BERTINELLI, Luisito, STROBL, Eric
While there have been some references in the literature to the potential role of the general decline in rainfall in sub-Saharan African nations on their poor growth performance relative to other...
BARRIOS, Salvador, BERTINELLI, Luisito, STROBL, Eric, TEIXEIRA, Antonio Carlos
We investigate and compare the spatial distribution of manufacturing activity and its determinants in Belguim, Ireland, and Portugal using comparable, exhaustive micro-level data sets.We find some...
Estimating the shirking model with variable effort
We show in a theoretical efficiency wage model where firms differ in monitoring intensity or in the effort intensity of their technologies that the impact of monitoring intensity on wages is...
Urbanization, urban concentration and economic growth in developing countries
BERTINELLI, Luisito, STROBL, Eric
We investigate how urban concentration and urbanization affect economic growth in developing countries. Using semi-parametric estimation techniques on a cross-country panel of 39 countries for the...
Dealing with monopsony power: the case for using employment subsidies
We show in a monopsony model that a minimum wage may raise hours which are already too high but has ambiguous effects on the number of employees and utility. Employment subsidies, in contrast,...
Exports, international investment, and plant performance : evidence from a non-parametric test
GIRMA, Sourafel, GïRG, Holger, STROBL, Eric
This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle...
The dynamics of agglomeration : evidence from Ireland and Portugal
BARRIOS, Salvador, BERTINELLI, Luisito, STROBL, Eric, TEIXEIRA, Antonio Carlos
This paper analyses and compares the dynamics of agglomeration in Portuguese and Irish manufacturing industries between 1985 and 1998 implementing Dumais, Ellison and Glaeser (2002) methodology....
Foreign direct investment, competition and industrial development in the host country
BARRIOS, Salvador, GïRG, Holger, STROBL, Eric
This paper analyses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the development of local firms. We focus on two likely of FDI: a competition effect which deters entry of domestic firms and...
The evolution of the firm size distribution and nationality of ownership
BARRIOS, Salvador, GORG, Holger, STROBL, Eric
It has recently been shown that the firm size distribution is initially skewed to the right and then evolves over time to become more lognormal, and argued that this is likely due to firms initially...
The impact of minimum wages on hours and employment revisited
Using a standard production function the equilibrium hours per worker wage locus is shown to be u-shaped in a competitive labour market. A minimum wage mayth us either increase or decrease hours per...
The Environmental Kuznets Curve semi-parametrically revisited
BERTINELLI, Luisito, STROBL, Eric
This paper re-examines the existence of an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) across countries using a semi-parametric regression estimator, which places no restrictions on the functional form. Our...
Contracting out and labor demand elasticities
GORG, Holger, PICARD, Pierre, STROBL, Eric
We examine the relationship between contracting out and the wage elasticity of labor demand in outsourcing plants. A simple theoretical model suggests that firms engaged in contracting out have lower...
BARRIOS, Salvador, BERTINELLI, Luisito, STROBL, Eric
Using plant-level data for the Irish manufacturing sector over the period 1983-98, we study the coagglomeration of domestic plants and foreign multinationals in Ireland. To this end we make use of...
Sustainable economic development and the environment: Theory and evidence
Luisito Bertinelli, Eric Strobl, Benteng Zou
The relationship between growth and pollution is studied through a vintage capital model, where new technology is more environmentally friendly. We find that once the optimal scrapping age of...
Polluting technologies and sustainable economic development
Luisito Bertinelli, Eric Strobl, Benteng Zou
We study how the import of older and more polluting technologies alters the relationship between output and environmental quality in developing countries within a vintage capital framework. Our...
Recent Trends in Trade Union Membership in Ireland
Using micro data from the Quarterly National Household Survey we look at trends in Irish union membership from 2001-2006. There was a steep decline in union density. Decomposition analysis suggests...
The Distributional impact of dams: Evidence from cropland productivity in Africa
We examine the distributional impact of major dams on cropland productivity in Africa. As our unit of analysis we use a scientifically based spatial breakdown of the continent that allows one to...
The Economic Growth Impact of Hurricanes: Evidence from US Coastal counties
We estimate for the first time the impact of hurricane strikes on local economic growth rates and how this is reflected in more aggregate growth patterns. To this end we assemble a panel data set of...
The impact of hurricane strikes on local cropland productivity: Evidence from the Carribean
We empirically estimate the impact of hurricane strikes on local crop productivity in the Caribbean region. To this end we first identify local cropland at 1km2 geographical units via Global Land...
The Re-Building Effect of Hurricanes: Evidence from Employment in the US Construction Industry
We examine the impact of hurricane strikes on the construction industry in US counties. To this end we use a measure of hurricane destruction derived from a wind field model and historical hurricane...
Electricity, carbon and weather in France: where do we stand ?
Sophie Chemarin, Andreas Heinen, Eric Strobl
As a tool to fight long run changes in climate the European Union explicitly introduced the emission trading scheme (EU ETS) on January 1, 2005, which aimed at reducing carbon emission by 8% by 2012,...
Economic development and losses due to natural disasters: the role of risk
Ingmar Schumacher, Eric Strobl
We show that the relationship between wealth and economic losses due to natural disasters is strongly linked to disaster risk. We first build an analytical model that demonstrates how countries that...
The dynamics of regional inequalities
Barrios, Salvador, Strobl, Eric
This paper analyses the link between regional inequalities and GDP per capita at the country-level. Our starting hypothesis is that the evolution of regional inequalities should follow a bell-shaped...
Creating backward linkages from multinationals: Is there a role for financial incentives?
Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley, Eric Strobl
We investigate whether government subsidies to local input manufacturers encourage procurement from foreign firms. We use a comprehensive panel data of Irish firms from 1983 until 2002. Our data...
Spillovers through backward linkages from multinationals: Measurement matters!
Barrios, Salvador, Görg, Holger, Strobl, Eric
We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions,...
Spillovers through backward linkages from multinationals: Measurement matters!
Salvador Barrios, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions,...
Spillovers Through Backward Linkages from Multinationals: Measurement Matters!
Barrios, Salvador, Görg, Holger, Strobl, Eric
We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions,...
The Distributional Impact of Large Dams: Evidence from Cropland Productivity in Africa
We examine the distributional impact of large dams on cropland productivity in Africa. As our unit of analysis we use a scientifically based spatial breakdown of the continent that allows one to...