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Integrated macroeconomic production function for open economies : a new Schumpeterian Solow model for globalization
Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2016
investment or international technology spillovers. This study is a major contribution to innovation, trade, FDI and growth … analysis in the context of economic globalization and the demand for labor as well as long run international output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452235
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Spatial interactions
Kim, Jun Sung; Patacchini, Eleonora; Picard, Pierre M.; … - 2022
This paper studies how the strength of social ties are affected by the geographical location of other individuals and their social capital. We characterize the equilibrium in terms of both social interactions and social capital. We show that lower travel costs increase not only the interaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013264823
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Employment protection and firm relocation : theory and evidence
Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Temouri, Yama - 2018
We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between employment protection and relocation. Stricter employment protection laws over time in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853748
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Locational choice and spatial wage inequality
Schran, Felix - 2019
During the last few decades, aggregate wage growth has been very unevenly distributed across space in Germany. While wages in Southern German local labor markets rose by up to 28 log points, they increased only modestly or even declined in the north. Similar results apply to employment changes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121322
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Who benefits from state corporate tax cuts? : a local labor markets approach with heterogeneous firms: comment
Malgouyres, Clément; Mayer, Thierry; Mazet-Sonilhac, … - 2021
Suárez Serrato and Zidar (2016) identify state corporate tax incidence in a spatial equilibrium model with imperfectly mobile firms. Their identification argument rests on comparative-statics omitting a channel implied by their model: the link between common determinants of a location's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012592979
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Undocumented worker employment and firm survival
Brown, J. David (contributor);  … - 2009
Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794077
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The welfare effects of globalization with labor market regulation
Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2015
I examine how globalization affects wages and welfare in a general equilibrium model of international trade with partly … oligopolistic markets. Globalization is modeled as reducing trade costs or opening up shielded sectors to trade. There is a national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347148
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The effects of globalization and technology on the elasticity of substitution
Sala, Hector; Trivín, Pedro - 2017
, in contrast, that σ is affected by both globalization and technology, and that different intensities in these drivers … substitution between capital and labor is below unity; that it increases along with the degree of globalization; but it decreases …-output ratio on the labor share irrespective of the degree of globalization (which would be consistent with an average aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704348
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Product market integration and labour markets : aggregate gains at the cost of more inequality?
Andersen, Torben M. (contributor);  … - 2007
"Important labour market consequences of globalization may arise via product market integration which affects the room …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003429631
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Globalization and strategic research investments
Bohnstedt, Anna; Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2010
We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009315295