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The Hidden Cost of Globalization : Import Competition and Mental Distress
Colantone, Italo; Crinò, Rosario; Ogliari, Laura - 2021
We study the effect of import competition on workers’ mental distress. To this purpose, we source information on the mental health of British workers from the British Household Panel Survey, and combine it with measures of import competition in more than 100 industries over 2001-2007. We find...
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Cross-Country Income Differences and Technology Diffusion in a Competitive World
Irmen, Andreas - 2012
policies such as subsidies to innovation investments explain a country's position in the eventual world income distribution …-degenerate world income distribution. In accordance with the empirical literature, I find that country characteristics such as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754962
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Competition in the International Niobium Market : An Econometric Study
Silveira, Jailison W. - 2017
Niobium is a highly strategic mineral, in which Brazil holds almost all of the world's reserves followed by Canada …
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A Closer Look at Revealed Comparative Advantage : Gross-versus Value Added Trade Flows
Brakman, Steven - 2015
With the availability of international value added trade data it has become evident that gross export data and value added data do not provide the same information. Although gross exports crosses national borders and is the target of trade policy, value added data tell us what fragment in the...
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The Greek Crisis : Causes and Consequences
Garcia Pascual, Antonio I. - 2011
Greece has reached a point where, under any plausible macroeconomic scenario, public debt will continue growing faster than GDP. Fiscal consolidation alone cannot close the solvency gap. A substantial reduction in the stock of debt is needed. Even post-debt restructuring, there is no guarantee...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117780
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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 unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers' bargaining...
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Product versus Process : Innovation Strategies of Multi-Product Firms
Flach, Lisandra - 2015
We investigate the effect of better access to foreign markets on innovation strategies of multi-product firms in … between the returns to innovation. In differentiated industries, cannibalization is lower and firms invest more in product … innovation. In homogeneous industries, firms internalize intra-firm spillovers and invest more in process innovation. We test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020507
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Financial Constraints and Other Obstacles : Are They a Threat to Innovation Activity?
Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz C.; van der Loeff, Sybrand Schim - 2021
In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using … statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We report results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms …
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What Drives Corporate Tax Rates Down? A Reassessment of Globalization, Tax Competition, and Dynamic Adjustment to Shocks
Overesch, Michael - 2009
We reassess the driving forces behind the recent decline of corporate tax rates in Europe. Using data for up to 32 countries from 1983 to 2006, we analyze the role of economic and financial openness as well as tax competition while allowing for dynamic adjustment to shocks and period-specific as...
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Health Care Expenditure and Income : A Global Perspective
Baltagi, Badi H. - 2016
This paper investigates the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income in the world … using data on 167 countries over the period 1995-2012, collected from the World Bank data set. The analysis is carried using …
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