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This paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their … wages to land rents, on the other hand, declined up to World War I and so did the ratio of wages to GDP per capita. The …
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Advances in communication technologies over the past half century have made the cultural goods of one country more readily available to consumers in another, raising concerns that cultural products from large economies - in particular the US - will displace the indigenous cultural products of...
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This paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their … wages to land rents, on the other hand, declined up to World War I and so did the ratio of wages to GDP per capita. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471890
markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software … three important phenomena: (1) the globalization of R&D, (2) the growing importance of software and IT to firm innovation … large quantities of STEM workers who possessed IT and software skills. Our findings support the view that the globalization …
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companies to disentangle the role of technological change, market power, and globalization in driving a fall in the labor share … measured using four firm and twenty firm concentration ratios and globalization is measured as export shares in total revenues … smaller. Finally, the evidence on globalization is mixed: trade shares are at times negatively associated with the labor share …
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This paper examines the role of corporate headquarters in allocating scarce resources to competing projects in an internal capital market. Unlike a bank lender, headquarters has control rights that give it both the authority and the incentive to engage in 'winner-picking' -- the practice of...
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continued effects of technology and globalization on the labor market. … emerged to explain this phenomenon, one focusing on international trade and labor market globalization as the driving force … satisfying alternatives to the trade versus technology debate and to assess directly the specific impact of international trade …
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technological similarity and increases head-to-head competition. In the special case of an innovation-only model where countries do …
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Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their … competitive position. Using data on firms in 27 emerging market economies, we estimate the effects of foreign competition … instrumental variables and a battery of checks, we provide robust evidence of a positive relationship between foreign competition …
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