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Relative Returns on Equities in Pacific Basin Countries
Engel, Charles M. - 2010
We examine the factors that determine the differences in ex ante returns on equities in eleven Pacific Basin countries. Our concern is whether real return differentials are primarily caused by nominal return differentials or expected changes in real exchange rates. We find that nominal return...
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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2007
Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production … in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778835
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Affiliates of U.S. And Japanese Multinationals in East Asian Production and Trade
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021
Since 1977, and in some cases starting before that, most East Asian countries' export patterns in manufacturing have been transformed from industry distributions typical of developing countries to distributions more like those of advanced countries. The process of change in most cases started...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224859
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Affiliate Activity in Japanese and U.S. Multinationals and Japanese Exports, 1986-1995
Lipsey, Robert E.; Ramstetter, Eric D. - 2022
This study examines the relationship between Japan's manufactured exports to individual markets and the economic … in the context of a typical gravity model explaining the cross-country variation of Japan's manufacturing exports. Second …. The level of Japan's manufactured exports to a country is almost always positively related to employment in foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311624
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Employer-to-Employer Flows in the United States : Estimates Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
Bjelland, Melissa - 2008
We use administrative data linking workers and firms to study employer-to-employer flows. After discussing how to identify such flows in quarterly data, we investigate their basic empirical patterns. We find that the pace of employer-to-employer flows is high, representing about 4 percent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772370
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The Long-Term Effects of California's 2004 Paid Family Leave Act on Women's Careers : Evidence from U.S. Tax Data
Bailey, Martha J. - 2019
This paper uses IRS tax data to evaluate the short- and long-term effects of California's 2004 Paid Family Leave Act (PFLA) on women's careers. Our research design exploits the increased availability of paid leave for women giving birth in the third quarter of 2004 (just after PFLA was...
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From the Valley to the Summit : The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women'S Work
Goldin, Claudia - 2021
Meaningful discussions about women at the top' can take place today only because a quiet revolution occurred about thirty years ago. The transformation was startlingly rapid and was accomplished by the unwitting foot soldiers of an upheaval that transformed the workforce. It can be seen in a...
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The Long Road to the Fast Track : Career and Family
Goldin, Claudia - 2021
The career and family outcomes of college graduate women suggest that the twentieth century contained five distinct cohorts.' Each cohort made choices concerning career and family subject to different constraints. The first cohort, graduating college from the beginning of the twentieth century...
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The Incentive for Working Hard : Explaining Hours Worked Differences in the U.S. And Germany
Bell, Linda A.; Freeman, Richard B. - 2022
This paper seeks to explain the greater hours worked by Americans compared to Germans in terms of forward-looking labor supply responses to differences in earnings inequality between the countries. We argue that workers choose current hours of work to gain promotions and advance in the...
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The Tyranny of Numbers : Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience
Young, Alwyn - 2021
of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Participation rates, educational levels and (with the exception of Hong …
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