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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending … consequences of the slave trade on the "receiving" countries in the Americas. Here I distinguish between the case of Latin America …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283184
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Trade labor, market rigidities, and government-financed technological change
Koeniger, Winfried - 2001
This paper contributes to the debate on the effects of trade versus technological change on wage differentials. We … product markets have become increasingly integrated. Moreover, it can explain why the volume of trade between developed and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339677
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The impact of globalization and technology transfer on manufacturing employment and skills in Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013
played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226717
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Does globalisation increase child labour?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002
There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household … economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410919
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The impact of robot adoption on global sourcing
Cilekoglu, Akin A.; Moreno, Rosina; Ramos, Raúl - 2021
rising concerns over reshoring, our findings suggest that robots have yet promoted trade in intermediate inputs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494895
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Trade and manufacturing jobs in Germany
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2017
entrants and returnees from non-employment. We then investigate if rising trade with China and Eastern Europe causally affected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596120
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Brexit had no measurable effect on Irish exporters
Elsner, Benjamin; Flaherty, Eoin T.; Haller, Stefanie - 2024
of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015048791
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Marketmaking middlemen
Gautier, Pieter; Hu, Bo; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016
other is a market-making mode where an intermediary offers a platform for buyers and sellers to trade with each other. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526728
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Equilibrium allele distribution in trading populations
Saint-Paul, Gilles (contributor) - 2006
. -- trade ; genotypes ; natural selection ; gene-culture coevolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003297701
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Optimizing incentive plan design : a case study
Levenson, Alec Robert; Zoghi, Cindy; Gibbs, Michael; … - 2011
We study effects of a firm's attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers. Before optimization workers reported Ratchet Effects that lowered productivity. The altered incentive plan offered higher compensation for increased sales...
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