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Do foreign owners favor short-term profit? : evidence from Germany
Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - 2014
Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to … foreign countries; rather, results point in the direction of more general features of corporate globalization. …
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Foreign ownership and intra-firm union density in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762256
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Migration, international trade and capital formation : cause or effect?
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Grossmann, Volker; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2012
technology, globalization tends to lead to convergence. Moreover, under non-convex technology trade and migration tend to be …-enhancing potential. -- migration ; international trade ; capital movements ; capital formation ; globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009663906
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Distributional consequences of capital accumulation, globalisation and financialisation in the US
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2013
In this paper we examine the dynamic contributions of capital accumulation, globalisation, and financialisation to the functional-personal income distribution nexus. We analyse the labour share under the prism of monopoly and frictional growth, and disclose the dramatic upward trend in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717716
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Constrained firms, not subsistence activities : evidence on capital returns and accumulation in Peruvian microenterprises
Göbel, Kristin; Grimm, Michael; Lay, Jann - 2012
We investigate the returns to capital and capital accumulation using panel data of Peruvian micro enterprises (MEs … small enterprises ; credit constraints ; risk ; risk aversion ; firm growth ; Peru …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009627349
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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...
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Capital accumulation and growth : a new look at the empirical evidence
Bond, Steve (contributor); Leblebicioglu, Asli (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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What do unions do for economic performance?
Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Accounting for China's growth
Brandt, Loren; Zhu, Xiaodong - 2010
role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocation across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and … investment are all inter-related, simple growth decompositions that are often used in the literature are not appropriate for … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …
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The role of demographics in precipitating crises in financial institutions
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...
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