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Trade and Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: South-South Trade Matters
Gourdon, Julien - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The relationship between trade liberalization and inequality has received considerable attention in recent years. The primary purpose of this paper is to present new results on the sources of wage inequalities in manufacturing taking into account South-South (S-S) trade. Globalization not only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619332
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Productivity As If Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China
Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Although firms are dispersed across space and may face radically different production conditions, this dimension of firm heterogeneity is often overlooked. Differences between factor markets, especially for labor, are stark. To pursue this line of inquiry, we model firm hiring across local labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110852
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Real economy causes of the Great Deprivation of early 21st Century
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The American economy has undergone a dramatic structural change in the first decade of the 21st Century. The real-economy causes of this transformation, and their expression via the real estate market and its financial derivatives’ market, and their final manifestation in world financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836611
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‘Make-or-Buy’ in International Oligopoly and the Role of Competitive Pressure
Dermot, Leahy; Catia, Montagna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
an intermediate component in-house or purchasing it from a domestic supplier. We model outsourcing as a bilateral …’ incentive to outsource. Consumer gains from trade liberalisation are enhanced when it leads to less outsourcing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836743
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The Determinants of Outsourcing from the U. S.: Evidence from Domestic Manufacturing Industries, 1972-2002
Maxim, Belenkiy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The issue of outsourcing as a form of foreign direct investment (FDI) has been widely discussed in the recent past. In … this essay, I analyze what determines the outsourcing activity by looking at U. S. manufacturing industries between 1972 … and 2002. I concentrate on correlation between the measure of outsourcing and wages, bargaining coverage contracts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518096
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Gravity for Outsourcing: an Application with Input-Output Dataset.
de Mello-Sampayo, Felipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper examines the impact of gravity on outsourcing. We derive a gravity equation from the classical spatial … recognition of interdependencies in spatial choice. Thus, we include a variable to explain the spatial structure of outsourcing … demand function than for the deterministic gravity model. The model shows that outsourcing is carried out mostly because of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118555
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OFFSHORING OF SERVICE JOBS
Demiroglu, Ufuk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Recent technological advances have made it economical to import some services that were not so previously, raising concerns about the future of U.S. jobs and workers' incomes. However, the current extent of service offshoring is very modest, both as a share of GDP and in terms of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113098
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A Theoretical Basis for Green Growth
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper suggests a theoretical model of inclusive green growth. Paper analyses development mechanism through which natural resource capital regenerates (or at least non-degrade) and contributes to economic growth. Climate change is a threat to save natural resources which is a crucial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271331
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Demokratie , öffentliche Güter und Europa
Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The rise of the extreme poles in the European political Spectrum, corresponds currently with a clear call for help by the site of simple People, combined with the desire for a serious confrontation with the tragic impasse reproduced by the extreme Problems of the everyday live . In this case,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011251884
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The value of mortality risk reductions in the Tunisian building and manufacturing industries
Benkhalifa, Abdelaziz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Government intervention must be taken in the building industry in order to improve occupational safety and health in Tunisia. The objective of this research is to measure the value of mortality risk reductions for fatal injury in the Tunisian building and manufacturing industries. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011253066