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We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 shops. Faced with intensified competition, the firm decided to sell or close down 57 of its worst performing shops. We identify the effect of downsizing from a plausibly...
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transportation and warehousing, industries complementary to e-commerce. Within the in-state retail sector, the decline in brick … general equilibrium model in which consumers substitute e-commerce for big-box purchases, crowding out brick-and-mortar retail. …
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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 …
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international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have …
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played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
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misalignments. Intra-regional trade - both with North Africa and the rest of the continent - together with greater orientation to …
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other is a market-making mode where an intermediary offers a platform for buyers and sellers to trade with each other. In …
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This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and emerging economies. It documents the role of diaspora networks in enhancing cross-border flows of goods, capital, and knowledge, eventually contributing to efficient...
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This paper examines the relationship between financial development, CO2 emissions, trade and economic growth using … is evidence of bidirectional causality between CO2 emissions and economic growth. Economic growth and trade openness are … interrelated i.e. bidirectional causality. Feedback hypothesis is validated between trade openness and financial development …
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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 …
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