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International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship

Alfaro, Laura; Charlton, Andrew - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Using a unique data set of approximately 24 million firms in nearly 100 countries in 1999 and 2004, we find suggestive evidence that international financial integration has...

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The Politics and Economics of Offshore Outsourcing

Mankiw, N. Gregory; Swagel, Phillip - American Enterprise Institute - 2009

offshoring and international trade. …

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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

How do offshoring and immigration affect the employment of native workers? What kinds of jobs suffer, or benefit, most … looked at the effects of offshoring and immigration separately, we argue that one can gain useful insights by jointly …. Third, we use the model to draw systematic predictions about the effects of immigration and offshoring on native workers and …

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Why Capital does not Migrate to the South: A New Economic Geography Perspective

Thia, Jang Ping - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

This paper explains why capital does not flow from the North to the South - the Lucas Paradox - with a New Economic Geography model that incorporates mobile capital, immobile labour, and productively heterogeneous firms. In contrast to neoclassical theories, the results show that even a small...

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