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Synchronized Factories: Latin America and the Caribbean in the Era of Global Value Chains

Blyde, Juan S. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

The objective of this report is to examine the extent to which countries in Latin America and the Caribbean participate in global value chains and what are the drivers of such participation. Production processes have been increasingly fragmented worldwide. For example, the production of the...

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Three New Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis When Environmental Regulation is Endogenous

Millimet, Daniel L.; Roy, Jayjit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The validity of existing empirical tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH) is constantly under scrutiny due to two shortcomings. First, the issues of unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error in environmental regulation are typically ignored due to the lack of a credible, traditional...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America

Campos, Nauro F.; Kinoshita, Yuko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms – privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization – as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural reforms for 19 Latin American and 25 Eastern European countries between 1989 and 2004. Our main...

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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Contribute to Productivity Growth?

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar; Terrones, Marco E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Economic theory has identified a number of channels through which openness to international financial flows could raise productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output growth, far less attention has been paid to its...

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Paying More to Hire the Best? Foreign Firms, Wages and Worker Mobility

Martins, Pedro S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In the context of the debate on the labour-market consequences of globalisation, we examine worker mobility in order to identify the wage differences between foreign and domestic firms. Using matched employer-employee panel data for Portugal, we consider virtually all spells of interfirm...

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Foreign Ownership, Employment and Wages in Brazil: Evidence from Acquisitions, Divestments and Job Movers

Martins, Pedro S.; Esteves, Luiz A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

How much do developing countries benefit from foreign investment? We contribute to this question by comparing the employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data. In order to control for unobserved worker differences, we...

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Openness and Technological Innovation in East Asia: Have They Increased the Demand for Skills?

Almeida, Rita K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper asks whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an increased demand for skills in the region. We explore a unique firm level data set across eight countries. Our results strongly support the idea that greater openness and technology...

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Do Foreign-Owned Firms Provide Better Working Conditions Than Their Domestic Counterparts? A Comparative Analysis

Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro S.; Schank, Thorsten; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ from those in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate the consensus in the empirical literature by applying a standardised methodology to firm-level data for three...

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Drivers and Impacts in the Globalization of Corporate R&D: An Introduction Based on the European Experience

Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Pietro; Vivarelli, Marco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture …-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of the globalization of corporate R&D and the … related driving factors and impacts. This introduction to the Special Section: "Globalization and Corporate R&D" forthcoming …

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