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Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis : US vs. Europe

Dolls, Mathias - 2010

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...

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Failing the Test? The Flexible U.S. Job Market in the Great Recession

Freeman, Richard B. - 2013

The Great Recession tested the ability of the "great U.S. jobs machine" to limit the severity of unemployment in a major economic downturn and to restore full employment quickly afterward. In the crisis the American labor market failed to live up to expectations. The level and duration of...

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Worker Needs and Voice in the US and the UK

Bryson, Alex - 2006

Workers have responded differently to declining union density in the US and UK. US workers have unfilled demand for unions whereas many UK workers free-ride at unionized workplaces. To explain this difference, we create a scalar measure of worker needs for representation and relate desire for...

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The Competitive Position of U.S. Manufacturing Firms

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1985

.S. parents and their affiliates reflected differences among industries in the extent to which export production shares moved from …

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Characteristics of U.S. Manufacturing Companies Investing Abroad and their Choice of Production Locations

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1983

characteristics of investing firms within individual industries.Despite its importance in determining the probability that a firm … in industries other than machinery R&D - intensive firms were more inclined than others to license technology, while in … the machinery industries, R&D - intensive firms tended to license less:to exploit their technological capital in foreign …

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Factor Prices and Factor Substitution in U.S. Firms' Manufacturing Affiliates Abroad

Borga, Maria - 2004

Using confidential individual firm data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis survey of U.S. firms' manufacturing operations abroad, we investigate the determinants of capital intensity in affiliate operations. Host country labor cost, the scale of host country production, and the capital...

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Foreign Entry into U.S. Manufacturing by Takeovers and the Creation of New Firms

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2002

in periods of high U.S. growth and take place mainly in industries in which the investing country has some comparative … advantage in exporting. New establishments are largely in industries of U.S. comparative disadvantage, and the relation of U … originate in countries with comparative advantages in particular industries and flow to industries of U.S. comparative …

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Affiliate Activity in Japanese and U.S. Multinationals and Japanese Exports, 1986-1995

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2001

some industries and periods, the initial level of Japanese affiliate employment, or changes in Japanese affiliate …

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