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, Japanese firms resembled U.S. multinationals. A Japanese parent's employment, given the level of its production, tends to be … similar to that of Swedish firms, but contrasts with that of U.S. firms. U.S. firms appear to reduce employment at home …-wage countries. We conclude that in Japanese firms and ancillary employment at home to service foreign operations outweighs any …
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The goal of this paper is to ascertain whether older women's current and anticipated future labor force patterns have changed over time, and if so, to evaluate the factors associated with longer work lives and plans to continue work at older ages. Using data from both the Health and Retirement...
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Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations.We examine employment … from domestic ones. Employment growth is relatively high in foreign-owned establishments, although foreign firms own …
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We examine financial literacy in the United States using the new National Financial Capability Study, wherein we demonstrate that financial literacy is particularly low among the young, women, and the less-educated. Moreover, Hispanics and African-Americans score the least well on financial...
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A long tradition in international economics explains comparative advantage by differences between countries in their stage of development, or their endowments of land, labor, and capital, and suggests that universal development will reduce the importance of trade. Sweden and the United States...
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.S. since 1950. While foreign-owned firms accounted for only about 3% per cent of total U.S. employment after all the recent …. Foreign firms accounted for almost 40 per cent of chemical industry employment, but for less than 10 per cent in all the other …
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The standard measures of nominal capital formation show the United States investing a proportion of GDP much lower than those of other developed countries throughout the last 25 years and falling further behind over time. In contrast, measures we have calculated in real terms across countries...
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Despite the persistent fears that production abroad by U.S. multinationals reduces employment at home, there has, in … fact, been almost no aggregate shift of production or employment to foreign countries. Some continuing shifts to foreign … associated with lower employment at home for a given level of production. The reason is that U.S. multinationals tend to allocate …
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market. Available evidence indicates that pensions must be viewed as part of a long-term employment relation. For this reason … and employment Combining information on employee characteristics, turnover and retirement patterns, company inputs and …-side information with employment and wage histories of employees …
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-owned establishments account for a larger proportion of employment. Foreign-owned establishments that were new in 1990, mostly takeovers … and average wages were larger where employment growth was lower, possibly an indication that lower-productivity, lower …
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