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Welfare Policy in the Presence of Unionised Labour and Internationally Mobile Firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia - 2010
In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade … offshoring, and it is only at that level that further economic integration will lead to both wage moderation and offshoring … activities. Therefore, our analysis suggests that rather than provoking a downsizing of the welfare state, offshoring defines an …
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Trade and Tasks : An Exploration Over Three Decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O. - 2015
faster task offshoring in sectors exposed to lower labour-market tightness. We discuss policy implications of these findings …
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U.S. Multinationals and Preferential Market Access
Blanchard, Emily J. - 2012
This paper examines the relationship between offshoring activity by U.S. multinational firms and the structure of U …, we find that offshoring multinational activity and preferential market access are positively and consistently correlated …
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A Touch of Sophistication : FDI and Unit Values of Exports
Harding, Torfinn - 2009
The debate on trade and growth increasingly focuses on the composition of exports. Exports of more “sophisticated” products appear to be positively correlated with growth, and upgrading the quality of exports is high on the policy agenda of many countries. This study presents evidence...
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Do Rankings Reflect Research Quality?
Frey, Bruno S.; Rost, Katja - 2021
Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure research quality, which should be the essence of...
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International Outsourcing under Monopolistic Competition : Winners and Losers
Do, Viet Dung - 2007
We show that, even with flexible domestic wages, international outsourcing may worsen the welfare of the home country and reduce the profits of all firms. If wages are rigid, outsourcing is welfare-improving if and only if the sum of the quot;trade creationquot; effect and the quot;exploitation...
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Trading Offshore : Evidence on Banks' Tax Avoidance
Langenmayr, Dominika - 2017
Little is known about how banks shift profits to low-tax countries. Because of their specific business model, banks use profit shifting channels different from those of other firms. We propose a novel and bank-specific method of profit shifting: the strategic relocation of proprietary trading to...
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Offshoring and Volatility of Demand
Benz, Sebastian - 2016
In this paper we explore the role that demand uncertainty plays for the offshoring decision, and the role that … offshoring plays for domestic volatility of employment. Offshoring is modeled as in Antràs & Helpman (2004), but we assume … firm's employment decision in its domestic and offshore production. In this environment, offshoring is driven by …
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Green Havens and Pollution Havens
Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Rick - 2021
We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a comprehensive and exhaustive dataset for outward FDI from the Netherlands, one of the most environmentally stringent countries and a major source of global FDI. Our evidence suggests that...
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Effective Labor Taxation and the International Location of Headquarters
Egger, Peter H. - 2012
Profit taxes are widely acknowledged to influence the location of firms' headquarters. This paper sheds light on the role of aspects of labor taxation for the international location of headquarters. While profit taxes can be avoided in various ways, it is much harder for firms to manipulate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106126