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The economic expansion of the late 1990s created many opportunities for business creation in Silicon Valley, but the opportunity cost of starting a business was also high during this period because of the exceptionally tight labor market. A new measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching...
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This paper exploits cross-country variation in the degree of geographical isolation, prior to the advent of sea-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe. The empirical investigation establishes that prehistoric...
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This paper evaluates the impact of globalization on tax bases of countries at varying stages of development. We see … globalization as a process that induces countries to embrace greater trade and financial integration. This in turn should shift …
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Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to …
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What is the impact of import competition from low-wage countries (LWCs) on inflationary pressure in Europe? This paper examines whether labor-intensive exports from emerging Europe, Asia, and other global regions have a uniform impact on producer prices in Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, and the...
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To examine the impact of globalization on managerial compensation, we consider a matching model where a number of firms … compete both in the product market and in the managerial market. We show that globalization, i.e. the simultaneous integration …
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This paper evaluates the impact of globalization on the tax bases of countries at varying stages of development. We see … globalization as a process that induces countries to embrace greater trade and financial integration, and macro stabilization. This …" taxes. We confirm the robustness of the main results to IV methodology, where trade globalization is inferred from applying …
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Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...
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manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …
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to the relative size of the countries' GDP. We conclude that the continuation of the fast growth rate of China, while …
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