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There is no Place Like Home: A Strategic Framework to Overcome Liability of Foreignness in the German Car Market
Sofka, Wolfgang; Zimmermann, Joerg - EconWPA - 2005
Germany through firm-specific advantages. Still, some face significant challenges. A submarket analysis shows that home market … advantages are more deeply rooted in the Western part of Germany and that foreign competitors find a more accessible competitive … environment in Eastern Germany. Therefore, East Germany is a superior platform for deploying effective and efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134415
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Educated Preferences: Explaining Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe
Hainmueller, Jens; Hiscox, Michael J. - EconWPA - 2005
Recent studies of individual attitudes toward immigration emphasize concerns about labor market competition as a potent source of anti- immigrant sentiment, in particular among less-educated or less-skilled citizens who fear being forced to compete for jobs with low-skilled immigrants willing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062482
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The Effect of Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure on Recent Immigrants' Earnings
Lubotsky, Darren - EconWPA - 2001
Since recent immigrants tend to earn less than natives, their relative labor market status has been adversely impacted by an increase in the return to labor market skills and widening wage inequality over the past two decades. To evaluate the magnitude of this effect, this study uses Social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408315
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Next in Line – Romanians at the Gates of the EU (emigrants, border control, legislation)
SIMINA, Ovidiu - EconWPA - 2005
The first of May 2004 marked an important date in the history of Europe as a political, geographic, and social entity. After years of negotiations, ten European countries joined the European Union, bringing in their potential and expectations, adding a total population of 75 million people and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408352
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A double gender-family inequality phenomenon in the international mobility of young researchers
Moguérou, Philippe - EconWPA - 2004
In this paper, we raise the question of gender differences in the geographic mobility of young researchers. We try to answer to three main questions regarding the international mobility of young researchers during the post-doc period: Are there differences among genders? Does “family” have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556413
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Macroeconomic Determinants of Workers’ Remittances: Host vs. Home Country’s Economic Conditions
Vargas-Silva, Carlos; Huang, Peng - EconWPA - 2005
This study examines the determinants of worker’s remittances. Variance decompositions, impulse response functions and Granger causality tests derived from a vector error correction model are used to test if remittances are affected by the macroeconomic conditions of the host (remittance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119455
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Migration and Regional Disparities: the Role of Skill Biased Flows
Fratesi, Ugo; Riggi, Massimiliano - EconWPA - 2004
The persistence of disparities is one of the most striking features of regional development. We argue that movements of labour force, instead of being an always equilibrating mechanism, can also make persistent or even reinforce such inequalities. The most advanced regions are in fact generally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556209
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Migration, Labor Market Flexibility, and Wage Determination in China: A Review
Zhao, Zhong - EconWPA - 2005
This paper reviews economic studies on rural-urban migration issues in China. The paper focuses on four issues: the … household registration system in China, the profile of the migrants, explanations for rural-to-urban migration, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556784
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Exports, Foreign Direct Investment, and Productivity: Evidence from German Firm Level Data
Wagner, Joachim - EconWPA - 2005
This paper presents the first empirical test with German establishment level data of a hypothesis derived by Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either trough exports or foreign direct investment: only the more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408061
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Returns to Education, Child Labor, & Schooling in India
Chamarbagwala, Rubiana - EconWPA - 2004
offer evidence that children's participation in child labor and schooling responds to economic returns to education in India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556051