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Do Multinationals Transplant Their Business Model?

Marin, Dalia - 2019

What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant the mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the … theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic … test the theory with original and matched parent and affiliate data on the level of decentralization of 660 Austrian and …

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TBTs, Firm Organization and Labour Structure

Navaretti, Giorgio Barba - 2020

This paper investigates the effects on firms' occupational structure of shocks induced by the introduction of Technical Barriers to Trade (TBTs) in importing countries. We rely on the Specific Trade Concern (STC) data released by the WTO to identify trade-restrictive TBT measures, combined with...

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Entrepreneurship, organization capital and the evolution of the firm

Oshima, Atsushi; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond - 2008

We view the entrepreneur as an agent who possesses human capital in the form of specific skills or talents. When she starts a firm, her human capital is essential to the firm and it has substantial private value. The entrepreneur transforms her human capital over time into what we call...

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Trade and the environment: The role of firm heterogeneity

Kreickemeier, Udo; Richter, Philipp M. - 2012

This paper derives a new effect of trade liberalisation on the quality of the environment. We show that in the presence of heterogeneous firms the aggregate volume of emissions is influenced not only by the long-established scale effect, but also by a reallocation effect resulting from an...

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von Ehrlich, Maximilian; Seidel, Tobias - 2012

In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of economic activity. If firms are more similar with respect to their total factor productivity, each company faces a lower propensity to export. This renders the home market more...

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Should tax policy favor high- or low-productivity firms?

Langenmayr, Dominika; Haufler, Andreas; Bauer, … - 2012

Heterogeneous firm productivity seems to provide an argument for governments to pursue 'pick-the-winner' strategies by subsidizing highly productive firms more, or taxing them less, than their less productive counterparts. We appraise this argument by studying the optimal choice of effective tax...

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Shifts in organizational form under a dual income tax system

Thoresen, Thor Olav; Alstadsæter, Annette - 2008

Evidence of owners of small businesses engaging in tax motivated shifts in organizational form is scarce. The main reason is lack of micro data enabling us to track tax-payers' movements across organizational modes. By exploiting new panel data that combine information from several public...

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Should local public employment services be merged with the local social benefit administrations?

Holzner, Christian; Munz, Sonja - 2011

The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...

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The making of cultural policy : a European perspective

van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2005

No good comparable data on sizes of cultural sectors of the countries of Europe exist. Still, local and national governments of Europe spend substantial resources on culture and cultural sectors contribute significantly to employment and national income. After briefly describing special features...

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Visas and work permits : possible global negotiating initiatives

Ng, Chi-Yung; Whalley, John - 2005

We discuss global options for initiatives intended to ameliorate adverse impacts of visa and work permit systems used by national governments around the world. We first describe and document some of their effects, noting the relative lack of other research work on these issues. We then discuss...

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