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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884188
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Institutional Features of Wage Bargaining in 23 European Countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardized questionnaire. Our data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy, considering 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566592
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Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions
Deschenes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael; Shapiro, Joseph S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments that improve health, but little research assesses the empirical importance of defenses. We study an important cap-and-trade market, which dramatically reduced NOx emissions, a key ingredient in ozone formation. A rich...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884061
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959770
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279247
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265652
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How Do Trade and Financial Integration Affect the Relationship between Growth and Volatility?
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Terrones, Marco E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
the context of globalization – a term typically used to describe the phenomenon of growing international trade and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233764