We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer-employee data set. We improve on the previous literature (i) by using anew methodology to quantify the contribution of an extensive set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable...

We document the recent phenomenon of uphill flows of capital from nonindustrial toindustrial countries and analyze whether this pattern of capital flows has hurt growth innonindustrial economies that export capital. Surprisingly, we find that there is a positivecorrelation between current...

This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namelythe relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-basedemployment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs)...

Die vorliegende Arbeit diskutiert Gründe für die gescheiterte Expansionsstrategie des Einzelhandelsunternehmens Wal-Mart .Differenziert werden vor allem 3 Fehlerquellen: Die ökonomischen,politischen und kulturellen Besonderheiten in Deutschland.beachtet. Insbesondere wird auf die Konzepte...