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We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000 multinationals and more than 5,000 of their affiliates, covering 47 home and host countries. We find considerable...
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The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher host corruption will be associated with higher foreign...
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We use a unique firm-level panel data set of multinational parents and their foreign affiliates to analyze whether profits are shared across borders within multinational firms. Using both fixed-effects and generalized method-of-moments estimators, affiliate wage levels are estimated to respond...
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Wage discrimination against women remains a major obstacle to fair economic opportunities for women and a grand challenge constraining economic growth in many countries. Existing research is ambivalent about whether foreign MNC subsidiaries as employers of women offer a solution to this grand...
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. Cooperation is highest in groups in which there is a mix of juniors and seniors, suggesting that there are indeed benefits in …
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economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular, but the electoral … foregone. -- public goods ; competition ; tournament ; cooperation ; voting …
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; incentives ; competition ; cooperation … characteristics are observed. Students are randomly assigned to a tournament scheme that fosters competition between coupled students … which students can neither compete, nor cooperate. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that competition induces …
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under either scenario to that of a single worker working in isolation. We show that whilst competition unequivocally reduces … performance, cooperation may raise or lower performance. Employing a unique data set in which workgroups are comprised of either … one or two workers, we are able to test explicitly for the presence of cooperation. We find empirical support for …
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different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment …, perceptions of competition faced on-the-job and the treatment effect of job incentives explain these differences in cooperation to … a large extent. -- field experiment ; cooperation ; social disapproval ; social preference ; competition ; Japan …
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behaviour, particularly in tracked educational systems. -- Cooperation ; competition ; PISA ; student attitudes … students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation …
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