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This article examines the effect of social networks by investigating how mobilizing family, friendship or kindship ties in job searches affects the quality of employment (QoE) using a mixed approach. Drawing from socioeconomic literature on the segmented labor market, the authors propose an...
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This paper analyzes the role of innovation activities in the export participation of Chinese high-tech firms during the period of 2005-2007. Using a parametric, instrumental variable approach and a non-parametric matching method, we find that firm-level innovation efforts, measured by R&D and...
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China have attained high rates of economic growth. Export-led growth has taken over the status as model for developing … of Japan, the Tiger states and China with their respective strategies of industrial policy and export-led growth. Is …
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The paper tries to underline the most important aspects of the financial crisis in Romania. Taking into account the information speed, the full integration of the capital markets and the commercial integration, the economic crisis of 2008 is certainly a global one and it has repercussions not...
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, whose prime activity is the exploitation of logs for processing industries in China, to limit their participation in forward …
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This dissertation is anchored in the disruptive impact of China’s resource-based economic expansion over the last two … decades. Whilst the country’s economic growth follows traditional patterns of development, the size of China’s population … reversal of commodity exporting countries’ terms of trade are a result of China’s non-marginal impact of consumption. This …
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India and China are without doubt two superpowers in becoming, as they jointly own 40% of the world’s population and … economic development of states in the globalization era relies decisively on the evolution of political interests games at … present in the following some recent economic earmarks of India’s, respectively China’s development, as well as, in conclusion …
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In his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith (1776) considered the phenomenon of division of labor so enormously significant for the creation of a nation’s wealth that he devoted the first three chapters of his book to an investigation of this process. This is...
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This essay has explored the validity of Marxist dependency theories in the context of the emerging China-Africa trade … patterns, this discussion has shown that the China-Africa economic links represent a distinct south-south dialectic occurring … the idea that China’s involvement in Africa is of a conventional center-periphery type; which suggests the existence of …
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subcontractors. These new tendencies that include productive globalization, China and the new production chains require the … is the leader in productive globalization (electronic commerce, subcontracting, and commercialization), (ii) the … production of vehicles in China and in East Asia is adding dynamism to the market and provoking strategy changes, and (iii) the …
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