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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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The Impact of Offshoring and Import Competition on Firm-Level Carbon Emissions
Leisner, Jonathan; Munch, Jakob R.; Nielsen, August Twile; … - 2023
We use Danish firm-level data to examine the causal link between carbon emissions, offshoring, and import competition. Offshoring reduces firms' emission intensity but increases their production. Import competition reduces firms' production without affecting their emission intensity. For...
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Do foreign-owned firms provide better working conditions than their domestic counterparts? A comparative analysis
Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro Silva; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2010
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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Trade and Inequality in Europe and the US
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021
The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...
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Help in a Foreign Land: Internationalized Banks and Firms’ Export
Brancati, Emanuele - 2022
The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper analyzes whether banks can support firms’ export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a large sample of Italian firms for which we merge custom...
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Trade Policy Uncertainty, Offshoring, and the Environment: Evidence from US Manufacturing Establishments
Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Kim, Gueyon; Park, Ziho - 2023
We study long-run environmental impacts of trade liberalization on US manufacturing by exploiting a plausibly exogenous reduction in US trade policy uncertainty: the conferral of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China. Using detailed data on establishment-level pollution emissions and...
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The Impact of Robot Adoption on Global Sourcing
Cilekoglu, Akin A.; Moreno, Rosina; Ramos, Raul - 2021
This paper studies the impact of robot adoption on firms' global sourcing activities. Using a rich panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms, we show that robot adopting firms increased their intermediate input purchases from foreign and domestic suppliers between 2006 and 2016. The effects...
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Exports and Productivity Growth: First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result is that most previous studies are...
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Do Foreign-Owned Firms Provide Better Working Conditions Than Their Domestic Counterparts? A Comparative Analysis
Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro S.; Schank, Thorsten; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684798
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International fragmentation and relative wages in the UK
Hijzen, Alexander; Görg, Holger; Hine, Robert C. - 2003
This paper re-examines the trade-based explanation of increased wage inequality in developed countries by focusing on international outsourcing. It is the first detailed study to address the effects of outsourcing on labour markets in the UK. In a recent paper, Feenstra and Hanson (1996)...
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