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Premature deindustrialization through the lens of occupations : which jobs, why, and where?

Kunst, David - 2019 - Revision: August 2, 2019

A recent literature do cuments that manufacturing employment growth in developing countries has been sluggish over the past decades, and that deindustrialization has often set in at historically low levels of income. However, there is little evidence on which kind of jobs are disappearing...

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Financial globalization and foreign direct investment

Poelhekke, Steven - 2016

This chapter provides a broad overview of the upward trends in financial globalization and foreign direct investment and asks whether and how financial globalization is linked with the foreign direct investment decisions of non-financial multinational enterprises. Several potential links and...

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Globalisation and nature policy : an integrated environmental-economic framework

Heide, C. Martijn van der; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; … - 1999

The search for a framework to study globalisation, economics and ecology for nature conservation andbiodiversity … use of renewable resources, land use andphysical planning, maintenance of nature areas, acquisition of nature areas, and … development of outdoorrecreation areas. Economic theories relating to nature and ecosystems have focused on notions of …

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Victims of progress : economic integration, specialization, and wages for unskilled labor

Francois, Joseph F.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2000

In this paper we demonstrate that intra-industry trade (or FDI)between identical countries could produce theobserved deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers.This involves a model of North-Northintegration through either increased trade flows or increased MNE-based production....

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Unraveling the shift to the entrepreneurial economy

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2011 - Current version: April 2011

A recent literature has emerged providing compelling evidence that a major shift in the organization of the developed economies has been taking place: away from what has been characterized as the managed economy towards the entrepreneurial economy. In particular, the empirical evidence provides...

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