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Capacity Constraining Labor Market Frictions in a Global Economy
Holzner, Christian - 2011
Convex vacancy creation costs shape firms' responses to trade liberalization. They induce capacity constraints by increasing firms' cost of production, leading a profit maximizing firm not to fully meet the increased foreign demand. Hence, firms will only serve a few export markets. More...
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian - 2011
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and …
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Shift Working and Trade in Labor Services with Time Zone Differences
Kikuchi, Toru - 2011
Using a two-factor (labor and capital), two-good (shift-working and non shiftworking commodities) model with two countries (Home and Foreign) which are located in different time zones, we highlight the impact of trade in labor services (via communication networks) on the comparative advantage of...
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Globalization and the (Mis)Governance of Nations
Blouin, Arthur - 2013
We analyze whether or not the globalization of capital, ‘disciplines' governments and improves governance. We … demonstrate that globalization affects governance, by increasing a country's vulnerability to sudden capital flight. This … ‘golden straitjacket'. However, globalization may also ‘overdiscipline' governments - resulting in a perverse impact on …
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Incomplete Contracts and the Impact of Globalization on Consumer Welfare
Defever, Fabrice - 2014
We embed a North-South trade model into an incomplete contracts setting where the production of heterogeneous firms can be geographically separated. When a Northern headquarter contracts with a Southern supplier instead of a Northern supplier, the presence of international incomplete contracts...
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A Simple Model of Globalization, Schooling and Skill Acquisition
Davidson, Carl - 2013
worse. Globalization impacts educational behavior and labor market outcomes differently as the extent of firms engaged in …
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Worker-Specific Effects of Globalisation
Egger, Hartmut - 2009
This paper sets up a general equilibrium model, in which firms are heterogeneous due to productivity differences and workers have fairness preferences and hence provide full effort only if their factor return is sufficiently high. With the wage considered to be fair by workers depending on the...
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The Bazaar Effect, Unbundling of Comparative Advantage, and Migration
Kohler, Wilhelm - 2007
Germany exhibits a strong reduction in domestic manufacturing production depth (bazaar effect). I argue that this reflects an unbundling of comparative advantage. Using a model where Ricardian plus Heckscher-Ohlin-type comparative advantage relates to fragments of production, I compare a trading...
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Industrialisation and the Big Push in a Global Economy
Kreickemeier, Udo - 2017
whether globalization makes it easier or harder for a country to escape from a poverty trap. Our model gives a definite answer …
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Offshoring along the Production Chain
Harms, Philipp - 2009
Recent contributions on off shoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production...
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