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Globalization and Wage Convergence : Mexico and the United States
Gandolfi, Davide - 2014
States and Mexico. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between Mexico and the United States between 1988 and … Mexico and the US. First, we find no evidence of long-run wage convergence among cohorts characterized by low migration … convergence for workers with high migration propensities. Finally, we find evidence of convergence in the border of Mexico vis …
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Globalised Labour Markets? International Rent Sharing Across 47 Countries
Martins, Pedro S. - 2010
We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000 multinationals and more than 5,000 of their affiliates, covering 47 home and host countries. We find considerable...
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Drivers and Impacts in the Globalization of Corporate R&D : An Introduction Based on the European Experience
Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Pietro - 2014
The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture …-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of the globalization of corporate R&D and the … related driving factors and impacts. This introduction to the Special Section: "Globalization and Corporate R&D" forthcoming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068355
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Home Market Effect Versus Multinationals
Toulemonde, Eric - 2007
We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number and the location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases when trade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production into a single country, which is likely to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776607
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Firms' Global Engagement and Management Practices
Görg, Holger - 2017
We investigate whether firms' "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is related to the change in their management performance. Using new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of management practices in Germany, we calculate...
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Trust in Public Institutions Over the Business Cycle
Stevenson, Betsey - 2011
We document that trust in public institutions ﾖ and particularly trust in banks, business and government ﾖ has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear...
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Large Employers are More Cyclically Sensitive
Moscarini, Giuseppe - 2010
We provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions and create more of their new jobs late in expansions, both in gross and net terms. The differential growth rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757838
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The Return to the Firm Investment in Human Capital
Almeida, Rita; Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2006
In this paper we estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job training. We use a panel of large firms with unusually detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of training, and several firm characteristics such as their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059821
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Mother's Autonomy and Child Welfare : A New Measure and Some New Evidence
Chakraborty, Tanika - 2011
on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … uncorrelated with the ones driving location choice of families given the migration patterns in Mexico. However, the positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131165
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Does Expanding Health Insurance Beyond Formal-Sector Workers Encourage Informality? Measuring the Impact of Mexico's Seguro Popular
Aterido, Reyes - 2011
Seguro Popular (SP) was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social Security. This paper tests whether the program has had unintended consequences, distorting workers' incentives to operate in the informal sector. The analysis examines the impact of...
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