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the effects of migration on the accumulation of both knowledge and human capital, by invoking endogenous growth theory …
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How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and developed countries over the period 1976-2000. We confirm the Heckscher-Ohlin prediction that, with...
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questions about the World's largest-scale test case of internal migration and strongly suggest a need for further research …
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This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a … sample of firms from 87 countries for the period from 1979 to 2018, we document that firm-level investment is negatively … investment proxies, empirical model specifications, and a variety of country-level controls. Further evidence shows that firm …
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This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ from those in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate the consensus in the empirical literature by applying a standardised methodology to firm-level data for three...
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This paper explores the effects of foreign direct investment, measured by mergers and acquisitions, on domestic … including both developed and developing economies, 2000‐2009. The theory yields ambiguous predictions about the relationship …
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outsourcing activities, the increased flow of direct foreign investment and its heterogeneous regional distribution, the increased … public investment in information and communication technologies as infrastructure for development, the importance of …
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We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend– also known as Petty's law – is not...
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Economic theory has identified a number of channels through which openness to international financial flows could raise …
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We investigate the effects of interregional labor market integration in a two-sector, overlapping-generations model with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To capture the response to migration on housing supply, capital formation is endogenous, assuming that...
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