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related to the change in their management performance. We use new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of … management practices in Germany. We calculate management scores for firms as in Bloom et al. (2013), which indicate how … structured management is in a given firm. We find that switching into exporting, and to a lesser degree opening up affiliates …
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In the presence of increasing specialization of workers it becomes more and more difficult for firms to find the most suitable workers. In such an environment a multinational corporation has an advantage because it can exchange workers between plants in different countries. In this way it can...
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"We construct a model of international trade and multinational production (MP) to examine the impact of globalization on the skill premium in skill-abundant and skill-scarce countries. The key mechanisms in our framework arise from the interaction between three elements: cross-country...
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Trade in intermediate goods as one possible link between rising trade and foreign direct investment is examined. To explain growing intermediate goods trade, three hypotheses are brought forward: outsourcing, global sourcing and the increasing importance of MNE networks. These hypotheses are...
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