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The Dynamics of Offshoring and Institutions
Heyman, Fredrik; Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik - 2012
, little is known about the impact of institutional quality on offshoring. This is surprising, given that offshoring has become … between institutional quality and offshoring. The results suggest that weak institutions are negatively related to offshoring … in general and to offshoring of R&D-intensive goods in particular. Furthermore, firms that are able to establish long …
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Private equity, layoffs, and job polarization
Olsson, Martin; Tåg, Joacim - 2015
. Buyouts reduce agency problems, which triggers automation, offshoring, and tougher bargaining with labor unions. We show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442462
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Balancing work and solidarity in the Western Democracies
Haskins, Ron - 2010
The capitalist democracies of western Europe and the U.S. have developed extensive social programs, based on the principle of solidarity, that provide assistance to the destitute, the unemployed, the sick, the disabled, and the elderly. Due in part to growing levels of spending on these...
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Economic Perfomance and Work Activity in Sweden after the Crisis of the Early 1990s
Davis, Steven J.; Henrekson, Magnus - 2007
.5 percent below the 1990 peak and a mere one percent above the 1993 trough. Employment rates tell a similar story. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320044
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Evidence on unemployment, market work and household production
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009
Time-diary data from four countries suggest that differences in market time between the unemployed and employed represent additional leisure and personal maintenance rather than increased household production. U.S. data for 2003-2006 show that almost none of the reduction in market work in areas...
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What happened to the transatlantic capital market relations?
Weber, Enzo - 2007
This paper investigates the capital market relations between Euroland and the USA from 1990 until 2006. Formally based …
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Who leads financial markets?
Weber, Enzo - 2007
The present paper embarks on an analysis of interactions between the US and Euroland in the capital, foreign exchange, money and stock markets from 1994 until 2006. Considering influences on financial market volatility, the estimations are carried out in multivariate EGARCH models using...
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Trends in the Internationalisation of R&D - the German Perspective
Beise, Marian; Belitz, Heike - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 67 (1998) 2, pp. 67-85
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Sozio-ökonomische Entwicklungseffekte der Internationalisierung der Produktion: die internationale Textilbranche und das Fallbeispiel der Bundesrepublik und Tschechien
Obst, Stefan - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 67 (1998) 3, pp. 235-253
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475494
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Offshoring, total factor productivity and skill-biased technological change
Akhmetova, Zhanar; Ferguson, Shon - 2015
The paper answers two questions simultaneously. What is the effect of offshoring on firms' total factor productivity …? What is the effect of offshoring on skill-biased technological change? We estimate a model of firm production that allows … for the effect of offshoring on both total factor productivity and relative skilled labor productivity, and for spillovers …
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