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Globalization, productivity growth, and labor compensation
Dreger, Christian; Fourné, Marius; Holtemöller, Oliver - 2023
We analyse how changes in international trade integration affect productivity and the functional income distribution …. To account for endogeneity, we construct a leave-out measure for international trade integration for country …-industry pairs using international input-output tables. First, we corroborate on the country-industry level that international trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014246661
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Globalised labour markets? : international rent sharing across 47 countries
Martins, Pedro S.; Yang, Yong - 2010
We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009155580
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Firms' global engagement and management practices
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2017
We investigate whether firms' "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is related to the change in their management performance. Using new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of management practices in Germany, we calculate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636585
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Minimum global tax : winners and losers in the race for mergers and acquisitions
Amendolagine, Vito; Bruno, Randolph; Cipollina, Maria; … - 2023
international taxation - on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving large multinational enterprises (MNEs). First, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279899
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Beyond borders : do gender norms and institutions affect female businesses?
Görg, Holger; Jäkel, Ina Charlotte - 2024
In this paper, we investigate whether gender norms and institutions act as a constraint to the performance of female businesses. We exploit novel and unique micro data on start-ups in Denmark, which we combine with information on individual-level characteristics of the entrepreneur as main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581370
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Heterogeneous immigrants and foreign direct investment : the role of language skills
Lücke, Matthias; Heidland, Tobias - 2015
We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD reporting countries. Applying a Poisson panel estimator to 2004-2011 data, we find a robust positive effect of bilateral immigrants on bilateral FDI – provided that residents of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347125
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Is transparency an anti-corruption myth?
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Schaffner, Markus - 2017
We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by implementing player identification via photographs. In our experimental design players have an incentive to form bilateral alliances in which they favour their partner at the expense of...
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Do foreign owners favor short-term profit? : evidence from Germany
Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - 2014
foreign countries; rather, results point in the direction of more general features of corporate globalization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354622
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Home market effect versus multinationals
Toulemonde, Eric (contributor) - 2007
We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number and the location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases when trade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production into a single country, which is likely to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003597770
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Learning from Latin America’s experience : Europe’s failure in the “Lisbon process”
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2010
to make Europe the leading knowledge-based economy in the world with a "Latin American perspective". A realistic and … performance" of the world economy by multivariate, quantitative means, looking into the possible contradictions that might exists …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941467