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How Important is Employment Protection Legislation for Foreign Direct Investment Flows in Central and Eastern European Countries?

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Markus Leibrecht () (Institute for Public Sector Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria)
Johann Scharler () (Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically the importance of labor market conditions and in particular of employment protection legislation as a determinant of bilateral Foreign Direct Investment flows to seven Central and Eastern European countries. Although our results indicate that countries characterized by low unit labor costs tend to attract more Foreign Direct Investment, we find no evidence suggesting that employment protection legislation matters in this context. This result also holds if we control for the riskiness of the host countries.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria in its series Economics working papers with number 2007-16.

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Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Central and Eastern Europe; Labor Market; Employment Protection;

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F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
J50 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - General

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