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Firms and skills : the evolution of worker sorting

Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015

We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and non-cognitive skills across Swedish firms between 1986 and 2008. The weight of the evidence suggests that the increase in sorting is due to stronger complementarities between worker skills and technology. In...

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What aspects of society affect the quality of life of a minority? : global evidence from the new Gay Happiness Index

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Nilsson, Therese - 2015

legal rights for gay men, GDP per capita, democracy and economic globalization tend to benefit gays, primarily by shaping …

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More open - better governed? : evidence from high- and low-income countries

Bergh, Andreas; Mirkina, Irina; Nilsson, Therese - 2013

Using World Bank data on institutional quality and the KOF Globalization Index, we examine over 100 countries from 1992 … to 2010 to analyze the relationship between economic and social globalization and six measures of institutional quality …. Theoretically, the incentives of elites to respond to globalization by improving institutions should differ between low-income and …

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The changed geopolitical map : implications for business policy in a sustainable finance perspective

Ghauri, Pervez N.; Oxelheim, Lars; Randøy, Trond - 2023

The relationship between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and governments has evolved over time, from a period of conflict after World War II to a more cooperative relationship in the 1970s and 1980s (Dunning, 1993). In the 1990s, many host governments sought foreign direct investments (FDIs) by...

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Globalization, transparency and economic growth : the vulnerability of Chinese firms to macroeconomic shocks

Oxelheim, Lars (contributor) - 2008

The process of globalization encompasses economic and financial integration. The abolition of capital controls and the … Standards ; transparency ; economic growth ; macroeconomic impact ; globalization …

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Globalization of R&D and China : empirical observations and policy implications

Lundin, Nannan (contributor); … - 2007

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The impact of board internationalization on earnings management

Hooghiemstra, Reggy; Hermes, Niels; Oxelheim, Lars; … - 2015

Prior literature shows that choices regarding board composition are associated with earnings management. We add to this literature by examining the effects of the presence of a foreign board member on earnings management. Using a sample of 3,249 firm-year observations representing 586...

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Pushed by poverty or by institutions? : determinants of global migration flows

Bergh, Andreas; Mirkina, Irina; Nilsson, Therese - 2015

The existing literature on determinants of migration flows typically claims that income differences across countries should be a pushing factor for people's movement. We suggest that institutional quality is a better proxy for the factors that trigger migration. People may well want to stay in...

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Global engagement, complex tasks, and the distribution of occupational employment

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; … - 2015

Building on a framework introduced by Chaney and Ossa (2013), we construct a task-based model of the firm's choice of occupational inputs to examine how that choice varies with greater global engagement. We depart from Chaney and Ossa by assuming that more complex tasks are more costly to...

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Heterogeneous firms, globalization and the distance puzzle

Larch, Mario; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Sirries, Steffen; … - 2013

Despite the strong pace of globalization, the distance effect on trade is persistent or even growing over time (Disdier … time. The distance puzzle thus arises from a growing bias of OLS estimates. The latter is explained by globalization more …

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