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behavior, in the experiment, a subject can inflict a painful electric shock on another subject in return for money. We …
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We compare social preference and social norm based explanations for peer effects in a three-person gift-exchange game experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. In our baseline treatment we observe that the second...
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- globalization, technological advance and financialization (GTF) - that have weakened the connections between economies and societies …
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foreign countries; rather, results point in the direction of more general features of corporate globalization. …
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From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers' unionization. On the other hand, workers of foreign-owned firms have an increased demand for the protection...
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We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...
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The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture …-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of the globalization of corporate R&D and the … related driving factors and impacts. This introduction to the Special Section: "Globalization and Corporate R&D" forthcoming …
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Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging market economies to innovate and … globalization through the impact of increased competition and foreign direct investment on domestic firms’ efforts to raise their …
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This chapter reviews research on the linkages between corporate globalization and worker representation. Studies have …
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The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...
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