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Migration and Cultural Change
Rapoport, Hillel - 2020
We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on...
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Cultural Distance, Firm Boundaries, and Global Sourcing
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Roland, Gérard - 2023
Casual observation suggests that cultural differences play an important role in business transactions, yet systematic evidence on this relationship is scarce. This paper provides a novel investigation of the effect of cultural distance on multinational firms’ decisions to integrate their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346366
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Do Immigrants Affect Crime? Evidence from Panel Data for Germany
Maghularia, Rita - 2019
The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German … administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no …, omitted variables and spatial correlation. Furthermore, taking advantage of the panel-structure of the data set we employ an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867015
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China's outward FDI: An industry-level analysis of host country determinants
Amighini, Alessia; Rabellotti, Roberta; Sanfilippo, Marco - 2011
We provide an empirical analysis of host country determinants of Chinese outward FDI for the period 2003 to 2008, using data disaggregated by country and industry. We want to assess the relevance of market-seeking, resource-seeking and strategic asset seeking motivations suggested by the theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280821
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Ethnic Identity and the Employment Outcomes of Immigrants : Evidence from France
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to determine the immigrants' ethnic identity, i.e. the degree of identification to the culture and society of the country of origin and the host country and second, to investigate the impact of ethnic identity on the immigrants' employment outcomes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866393
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Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245626
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Evidence and implications of Zipf's aw for integrated economies
Bowen, Harry P.; Munandar, Haris; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2006
This paper considers the distribution of output and productive factors among members of a fully integrated economy (FIE). We demonstrate that each member's shares of total output and of total factors will be equal. This implies that growth in shares is random. If output and factor shares evolve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263933
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Mobile tax base as a global common
Konrad, Kai A. - 2007
If countries anticipate Bertrand competition in tax rates, they may expend effort that makes some of their tax payers less mobile or increases the mobility of tax payers elsewhere. I provide piecemeal evidence on what activities countries use. I analyse how such activities interact with Bertrand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264247
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The welfare state and the forces of globalization
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2007
The emergence of the Asian tiger countries and the participation of the ex-communist countries in world trade has reduced the equilibrium price of labor in western Europe and elsewhere. However, the actual price of labor hardly reacts, because the welfare state's minimum replacement incomes are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276599
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Global Taxation and National Welfare States
Jha, Priyaranjan; Mukherjee, Rahul - 2023
This paper studies the effects of globalization on the ability of governments to generate tax revenues for the financing of national welfare states. In this context, it summarizes the theoretical predictions of various economic models of tax competition between countries and discusses the role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377496