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Outsourcing motives, location choice and labour market implications : an empirical analysis for European countries

Neureiter, Marcus; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2009

We use data on motives of international outsourcing and location choices from a recent survey of European companies to … compensated partly by new job creation, particularly for high skilled workers. -- Outsourcing ; outward FDI ; motives ; location …

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Modes of international sourcing and the competitiveness of firms : an analysis of European survey data

Neureiter, Marcus; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2009

outsourcing as possible determinants of market, cost and knowledge-related aspects of the competitiveness of firms. We find that …

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Overseas links as export conduits

Hanley, Aoife (contributor) - 2009

; networks ; outsourcing ; vertical integration …

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Offshoring and labour market inequalities

Schwörer, Tillmann - 2013

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German … industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of … sector, material offshoring, and offshoring to Central and Eastern Europe. Second, we find that the labour market adjusts to …

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The new economy and the international regulatory framework

Piazolo, Daniel - 2001

The rapid diffusion of the internet and electronic commerce changes the way business and international trade take place. The new economy poses new challenges to the international regulatory framework, since small distortions due to differing sets of regulations and taxation between countries...

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Is favoritism a threat to Chinese aid effectiveness? : A subnational analysis of Chinese development projects

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2019

Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...

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Democracy and aid donorship

Fuchs, Andreas; Müller, Angelika - 2018 - This version: September 2018

Almost half of the world's states provide bilateral development assistance. While previous research takes the set of donor countries as exogenous, this article is the first to explore the determinants of aid donorship. We hypothesize that democratic institutions reduce poor countries' likelihood...

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Prospective membership and institutional change in transition countries

Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009

This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...

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Accession incentives for institutional change in post-socialist countries : cross-section and country evidence from NATO enlargement

Schweickert, Rainer; Melnykovska, Inna; Heitmann, Hanno - 2010

This paper analyses the transformative power of NATO accession that gains in importance due to the enlargement fatigue of the EU, the EU’s rather weak neighbourhood incentives and the increasing importance of regional security as an incentive for compliance with the institutional standards of...

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Does aid for education attract foreign investors? : an empirical analysis for Latin America

Donaubauer, Julian; Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2012

We address the question of whether foreign aid helps attract foreign direct investment (FDI). This could be achieved if well targeted aid removed critical impediments to higher FDI inflows. In particular, test the hypothesis that aid for education is an effective means to increase FDI flows to...

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