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Transparency in Meat Production – Consumer Perception at the Point of Sale

Deimel, Mark - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

As a result of a large number of food scandals, societal interest in transparency in the food sector has grown … address. Hence, the creation of transparency in the production process has been the focus of the legislation. In this context … foods. This is intended as a response to the general call for more transparency or a "gläserne Produktion ". It has not been …

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Integration and Labour Markets in European Border Regions

Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Stiller, Silvia - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

Border regions are likely to play a critical role within the spatial dynamics initiated by the enlargement of the EU. This paper deals with the effects of integration on labour markets in border regions. Within the framework of different theoretical approaches, the effects of integration on...

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The Final Frontier? Border Effects and German Regional Wages

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

Recent studies of border effects have focused on the intra-country and inter-country comparison of trade flows. It is found that borders have a negative impact on the size of cross-border trade. In order to estimate border effects on a regional level one needs not only data on inter-country but...

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Private Standards and Employment Insecurity: GlobalGAP in the Senegalese Horticulture Export Sector

Colen, Liesbeth; Maertens, Miet - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

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Trade reform, migration, and a Chinese village economy

Kleinwechter, Ulrich; Grethe, Harald - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

Replaced with revised version of paper 09/27/11.

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Internationalisierung der Dienstleistungserstellung: Konsequenzen fur den schweizerischen Arbeitsmarkt

Henneberger, Fred; Ziegler, Alexandre - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2001

This paper analyses the potential employment effects of foreign direct investment in the Swiss services industry. First … investment have a crucial influence on the consequences to be expected for the domestic labour market. Second, an initial attempt …

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Trade and Investment Effects of Forced Labour: An Empirical Assessment

Busse, Matthias; Braun, Sebastian - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

comparative advantage (trade) and foreign direct investment flows. It discusses several forms and the prevalence of forced labour … investment is negatively linked with forced labour. This result even holds for relatively poor developing countries …

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The Causal Effects of Exports on Firm Size and Labor Productivity: First Evidence From a Matching Approach

Wagner, Joachim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2001

This paper uses a large plant level panel data set from Germany and a matching approach to look for causal effects of starting to export on plant performance. We find positive effects on growth of employment, labor productivity, and wages. Dieses Diskussionspapier untersucht, welche Effekte der...

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Locating Foreign Affiliates in Germany: The Case of Swedish MNEs

Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2001

This paper uses a dataset on the foreign activities by Swedish manufacturing firms to examine the performance of German affiliates compared with affiliates in other locations. It is found that German affiliates, on average, have higher labour productivity, R&D expenditure per employee and...

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Do Transnational Corporations Care About Labour Standards?

Busse, Matthias - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

This paper explores the relationship between foreign direct investment, or the activities of transnational corporations … investment and presents the results of an empirical test of that linkage. The results show that, contrary to the conventional … positively associated with foreign direct investment inflows. Concerns about "social dumping" or "a race to the bottom" on such …

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