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Can Deunionization Lead to International Outsourcing?
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2005
higher domestic wages, reduce incentives for international outsourcing. Though somewhat surprising, this result provides a … theoretical reconciliation of the empirically observed trends of deunionization and increased international outsourcing in many … - will increase incentives for international outsourcing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766312
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The Structure of Worker Compensation in Brazil, with a Comparison to France and the United States
Filho, Naércio Aquino Menezes; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; … - CESifo - 2006
We employ a comprehensive matched employer-employee data set for Brazil to analyze wage determinants and compare results to Abowd, Kramarz, Margolis and Troske (2001) for French and U.S. manufacturing. Returns to education and experience in Brazilian manufacturing exceed those of the other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766015
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The Bazaar Effect, Unbundling of Comparative Advantage, and Migration
Kohler, Wilhelm - CESifo - 2007
Germany exhibits a strong reduction in domestic manufacturing production depth (bazaar effect). I argue that this reflects an unbundling of comparative advantage. Using a model where Ricardian plus Heckscher-Ohlin-type comparative advantage relates to fragments of production, I compare a trading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181377
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Real and Monetary Challenges to Wage Policy in Germany at the Turn of the Millennium: Technical Progress, Globalization and European Monetary Union
Franz, Wolfgang - CESifo - 1999
revisited in this study: skilled-biased technological progress, the increasing international integration of labor and product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765693
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Outsourcing and Trade in a Spatial World
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - CESifo - 2004
This paper provides an analysis of outsourcing and trade in a spatial model à la Hotelling. In this setting, we discuss … the trade-off between transport-cost-related disadvantages and outsourcing-induced production cost advantages of a large …
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The Role of Public Infrastructure for Firm Location and International Outsourcing
Egger, Hartmut; Falkinger, Josef - CESifo - 2003
. International outsourcing from home declines. Opposite effects are triggered in the partner country. In a welfare analysis we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181285
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A Complete Characterization of the Distributional Effects of International Outsourcing in the Heckscher-Ohlin Model
Egger, Hartmut; Falkinger, Josef - CESifo - 2001
. It isshown that the factor-biased and the sector-biased impact ofinternational outsourcing discussed in the literature …
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015
Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257678
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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation
Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - CESifo - 2011
-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024844
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The Economics of Pending Patents
Koenen, Johannes; Peitz, Martin - CESifo - 2011
We provide a treatment of a number of questions pertaining to pending patents – a subject that has so-far mainly been discussed en-passant in the existing literature. We present the underlying institutional and legal framework that governs pending patents and some basic facts related to them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371351