Does it matter where you invest? The impact of foreign direct investments on domestic job creation and destruction

Dialysis and mortality: does it matter where you live?

A 70-year-old man with diabetic nephropathy and a history of multiple admissions for congestive heart failure is approaching the need for renal replacement therapy. He is struggling with his decision regarding the optimal dialysis modality. He lives alone in rural Washington, 60 miles from the nearest dialysis unit. He is a man of modest means and cannot afford the transportation costs associat...

Accessing genitourinary medicine clinics: does it matter where you live?

OBJECTIVES To determine whether genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics in England are located conveniently for potential users and to assess whether there are any regional variations in accessibility. METHODS A surface model was created in ArcGIS to estimate driving times to the nearest GUM clinic and to identify the proportion of the population living more than 30 minutes drive from their near...

Job Creation and Destruction

The Effects of Trade Integration, Globalization and Foreign Direct Investments on Employment in Iranian Manufacturing Sector

This paper focuses on two major aspects of globalization: international trade and FDI and their impacts on manufacturing employment in Iran and study whether foreign direct investment and trade expansion with Asian and European partner played any role in shaping the Iranian manufacturing employment structure. This study incorporates globalization (KOF index), trade integration and FDI into a si...

Job Creation and Job Destruction in Argentina

J Jo ob b C Cr re ea at ti io on n a an nd d J Jo ob b D De es st tr ru uc ct ti io on n i in n A Ar rg ge en nt ti in na a Development Bank for the "Labor Markets and Globalization Conference", October 2003. We are grateful to Gustavo Marquez and Carolina Czastkiewicz for their useful comments and to Hugo Hopenhayn who kindly gave us the panel data for the years 1989 to 1995. We would also lik...