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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap

Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

and innovation, trying to map – using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature – the concrete ways through … involved into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international … technological transfer. Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of …

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Telecommunications Dynamics, Output and Employment

Jungmittag, Andre; Welfens, Paul J.J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic production function is the analytical starting point...

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How Do Immigrants from Taiwan Fare in the U.S. Labor Market?

Lin, Carl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have grown rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S. economy. Our estimates indicate that the rising returns to education, pre-migration experience and hours worked per week play...

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Long-term Effects of Early Childhood Malaria Exposure on Education and Health: Evidence from Colonial Taiwan

Chang, Simon; Fleisher, Belton M.; Kim, Seonghoon; Liu, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan …

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Reflexionen zur Zukunft der Arbeit

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

angesichts von Demografie, Globalisierung und Technologiefortschritt nicht ihren eigenen wirtschaftlichen Erfolg aufs Spiel …

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Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?

Böckerman, Petri; Maliranta, Mika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special attention to the role of occupational restructuring as a conveying mechanism. Using linked employer-employee data, we find that offshoring involves job destruction, especially...

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Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany

Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

foreign countries; rather, results point in the direction of more general features of corporate globalization. …

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Trade and Labor Reallocation with Heterogeneous Enforcement of Labor Regulations

Almeida, Rita K.; Poole, Jennifer P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper revisits the question of how trade openness affects labor market outcomes in a developing country setting. We explore the fact that plants face varying degrees of exposure to global markets and to the enforcement of labor market regulations, and rely on Brazil's currency crisis in...

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Globalization, Institutions, and the Ethnic Divide: Recent Longitudinal Evidence

Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Prasch, Robert E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

significant impediment to growth but religious and linguistic heterogeneity have not. Further, while economic globalization has … more from global integration. This suggests the importance of globalization in redressing the detrimental impact of ethnic …

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Gender Wage-Productivity Differentials and Global Integration in China

Dammert, Ana C.; Ural Marchand, Beyza; Wan, Chi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

to the relative marginal productivity levels of workers. This paper investigates the role of globalization on the … labor demand. The results suggest that more exposure to globalization through increased exports is associated with lower …

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