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The Role of Globalization in the Within-Industry Shift Away from Unskilled Workers in France
Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa - 2021
globalization in France has been a huge growth in vertical specialization -- the completion of the different production stages of a …Growth in international trade and globalization has been correlated in nearly all countries with a worsening of the … good in different countries. By shifting relative labor demand across countries, globalization of this form could explain …
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Financial Systems, Economic Growth, and Globalization
Rousseau, Peter L.; Sylla, Richard - 2021
formal quantitative analysis. We begin with studies of the Dutch Republic, England, the U.S., France, Germany and Japan that … that the growth and increasing globalization of these economies might indeed have been 'finance-led.' …
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Exporting and Performance of Plants : Evidence from Korean Manufacturing
Hahn, Chinhee - 2021
This study examines the relationship between exporting and various performance measures including total factor productivity, using the annual plant-level panel data on Korean manufacturing sector during the period of 1990 to 1998. The two key questions examined are whether exporting improves...
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An Exploration of Luxury Hotels in Tanzania
Comin, Diego A. - 2012
Tourism is a tradable service activity that could allow some African countries to generate significant growth. Tanzania, given its unique natural assets, is an ideal candidate. However, despite being so richly endowed in touristic resources, Tanzania receives very few tourists and revenues from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109446
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Did France Cause the Great Depression?
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2010
initiated the downturn, France increased its share of world gold reserves from 7 percent to 27 percent between 1927 and 1932 and … and world prices had continued. The results indicate that France was somewhat more to blame than the United States for the …
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Disability and Social Security Reforms : The French Case
Behaghel, Luc - 2011
The French pattern of early transitions out of employment is basically explained by the low age at "normal" retirement and by the importance of transitions through unemployment insurance and early-retirement schemes before access to normal retirement. These routes have exempted French workers...
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Housing Dynamics Over the Business Cycle
Kydland, Finn - 2012
Over the U.S. business cycle, fluctuations in residential investment are well known to systematically lead GDP. These dynamics are documented here to be specific to the U.S. and Canada. In other developed economies residential investment is broadly coincident with GDP. Nonresidential investment...
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Cherries for Sale : Export Networks and the Incidence of Cross-Border M&A
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012
This paper develops a dynamic model of cross-border M&A activity. We show that foreign firms will be relatively more attracted to targets in the domestic country that had high productivity levels several years prior to acquisition, but then suffered a negative productivity shock (i.e., cherries...
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Energy Production and Health Externalities : Evidence from Oil Refinery Strikes in France
Lavaine, Emmanuelle - 2013
refineries in France as a natural experiment. First, we show that the temporary reduction in refining lead to a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083097
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Do Prices and Attributes Explain International Differences in Food Purchases?
Dubois, Pierre - 2013
Food purchases differ substantially across countries. We use detailed household level data from the US, France and the … prices and characteristics are important and can explain some difference (e.g., US-France difference in caloric intake), but …
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