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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; Vivarelli, Marco; … - 2011

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 in …

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Why ex(im)porters pay more: Evidence from matched firm-worker panels

Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - 2011

We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a rich matched employer-employee data set. We improve on the previous literature (i) by using a new methodology to quantify the contribution of an extensive set of worker- and firm-level observable and...

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The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This paper introduces two composite indices of globalisation. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate the level of globalisation and show how globalisation has developed over time for different...

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Trade Liberalization in a Globalizing World

Faini, Riccardo - 2004

Globalization is not only about the rise of trade, FDI, and migration. It is also about the changing linkages among … investment in human capital. Overall, our results highlight the need to study globalization in a fully integrated way, not just …

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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

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Asabiyya: re-interpreting value change in globalized societies

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to … is whether modernization without spiritual values in a globalized world economy and world society possible in the long … current world crisis is far more connected with these dimensions. We conclude that not a society based on fear is needed in …

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How Does Globalization Affect the Synchronization of Business Cycles?

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar; Terrones, Marco E. - 2003

wisdom that globalization has increased the degree of synchronization of business cycles. The evidence that trade and …

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What determines the share of labour in national income? A cross-country analysis

Guerriero, Marta; Sen, Kunal - 2012

share around the world, in particular from the mid-1980s onwards. Using fixed effects regression methods on a panel dataset …

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The Brain Drain: Curse or Boon?

Commander, Simon; Kangasniemi, Mari; Winters, L. Alan - 2003

The migration of skilled individuals from developing countries has typically been considered to be costly for the sending country, due to lost investments in education, high fiscal costs and labour market distortions. Economic theory, however, raises the possibility of a beneficial brain drain...

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International Migration in the Long-Run : Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2004

World War I to the quotas and bans introduced afterwards was the result of a combination of factors: public hostility …

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