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There is evidence that better performing firms tend to enter international markets. Internationally active firms are larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging in international activity are found especially in...
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The impact of offshoring on domestic jobs is more complicated than it first appears. In the standard narrative …, offshoring production is thought to harm domestic workers by providing cheap alternative sources of labor. However, while … offshoring may directly displace domestic workers, the resulting foreign market access and lower production costs allow domestic …
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There is evidence that better performing firms tend to enter international markets. Internationally active firms are larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging in international activity are found especially in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269597
The capitalist democracies of western Europe and the U.S. have developed extensive social programs, based on the principle of solidarity, that provide assistance to the destitute, the unemployed, the sick, the disabled, and the elderly. Due in part to growing levels of spending on these...
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Liberalization of foreign trade and investment raises the domestic ratio of skilled to unskilled wages (skill premium) if the country has a sufficiently well-educated workforce, but lowers it otherwise. Wide wage inequality is undesirable on equity grounds, especially in poor countries where the...
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to workers’ incomes and employment, while firms that import intermediate production stages (“offshoring”) display bigger … employment responses to small changes in workers’ wages, and are more likely to shut down home factories. But offshoring also … helps firms weather economic shocks. Offshoring firms are more likely to survive and provide greater employment stability to …
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international trade. Offshoring-the cross-border trade in intermediate goods and services which facilitate country …
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The structure of employment in the Federal Republic of Germany has been diversifying increasingly since the 1980s. The … traditional 'regular employment relationship' has lost ground to other employment forms such as part-time, fixed-term or agency … work, though it is still by far the most common type of employment relationship. In Berlin, however, more substantial …
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Das Konzept der Nettosozialleistungsquote (NSLQ) von W. Adema hat in jüngster Zeit einige zentrale Annahmen der vergleichenden Wohlfahrtsstaatenforschung erschüttert. Nicht nur die quantitative Dimension des Wohlfahrtsstaates in OECD-Ländern, sondern auch seine strukturelle Zusammensetzung...
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Since the 1980's the changing structure of employment in the Federal Republic of Germany is increasingly visible …. Whereas the socially secured, dependent and unlimited full time employment - the so called 'regular employment relationsship … article examines the alteration of employment forms between 1985 and 2005 and compares the development in the Federal Republic …
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