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This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from … varieties of capitalism approach, which sees business as protagonists, or at least consenters, in the development of job … business weakness in the aftermath of both World Wars. …
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We document the recent phenomenon of "uphill" flows of capital from nonindustrial to industrial countries and analyze whether this pattern of capital flows has hurt growth in nonindustrial economies that export capital. Surprisingly, we find that there is a positive correlation between current...
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process of financial globalization. Our central findings indicate that policies promoting financial sector development …, institutional quality and trade openness appear to help developing countries derive the benefits of globalization. Similarly, sound … unavoidable tensions inherent in evaluating the risks and benefits associated with financial globalization. In light of these …
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integration policies. This paper adopts the Varieties of Capitalism framework to study the institutional determinants of Immigrant …
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In the transition from socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe life satisfaction has followed the V-shaped pattern of …
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angesichts von Demografie, Globalisierung und Technologiefortschritt nicht ihren eigenen wirtschaftlichen Erfolg aufs Spiel …
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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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This paper is intended to provide an updated discussion on a series of issues that the relevant literature suggests to be crucial in dealing with the challenges a middle income country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status. In particular, the conventional...
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Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to … foreign countries; rather, results point in the direction of more general features of corporate globalization. …
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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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