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Which institutions encourage entrepreneurs to create larger firms?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152794
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The welfare effects of globalization with labor market regulation
Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2015
I examine how globalization affects wages and welfare in a general equilibrium model of international trade with partly … oligopolistic markets. Globalization is modeled as reducing trade costs or opening up shielded sectors to trade. There is a national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347148
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Structural change and innovation as exit strategies from the middle income trap
Vivarelli, Marco - 2014
This paper is intended to provide an updated discussion on a series of issues that the relevant literature suggests to be crucial in dealing with the challenges a middle income country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status. In particular, the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350349
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Migration and globalization : what's in it for developing countries?
Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518125
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Capitalism recoupled
Kelly, Colm; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
- globalization, technological advance and financialization (GTF) - that have weakened the connections between economies and societies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583534
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Migration and cultural change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2021
compositional and cultural diffusion mechanisms. We use the World Value Survey for 1981-2014 to build time-varying measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648747
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Globalization, structural change and innovation in emerging economies : the impact on employment and skills
Vivarelli, Marco - 2018
This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status, with a particular focus devoted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916217
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Capital market integration and gender inequality
Komura, Mizuki; Ogawa, Hikaru - 2018
This study explores the effects of globalization on gender inequality. Specifically, we depict that, in terms of … capital market integration, globalization alters the gender gap in wage rates through changes in labor demand for capital …-intensive sectors. Consequently, globalization leads to opposite effects on the couple's labor supply and fertility decisions in capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925357
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014246661
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Offshoring and the decline of unions
Munch, Jakob Roland; Olney, William W. - 2024
The prevalence of labor unions have declined post-WWII, and this paper examines whether globalization is a contributing … distributional effects of globalization and for the future of organized labor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580754