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Jakob Schwab analyzes central mechanisms in the systematic economic interaction between rich and poor countries. He focuses on the drivers and effects of investment in developing countries and shows that predictions of standard economic analysis may turn around when accounting for peculiarities...
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Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative effects are asked: What are the labour market implications?...
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Wolfgang Markus Gleich verdeutlicht in diesem Buch, dass sich Unternehmen durch Internationalisierungsschritte wirksam gegen ausländische Konkurrenten im eigenen Heimatmarkt verteidigen können. Untersucht werden hierbei insbesondere Vergeltungsschläge im Heimatmarkt der Angreifer. Hierdurch...
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Immer mehr Unternehmen messen dem Aufbau einer starken Corporate Brand eine hohe Bedeutung zu. International tätige Unternehmen betreiben in ihrem Heimatland zumeist beachtliche Marketingaufwendungen, um bei den Zielgruppen ein eindeutiges und positives Unternehmensbild zu verankern. In den...
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Der Faktormarkt für Arbeit lässt sich aufgrund fortschreitender Spezialisierungsanforderungen, räumlicher Friktionen und sozialer Interdependenzen durch perfekt kompetitive Strukturen nur unzureichend beschreiben. In Analogie zu industrieökonomischen Ansätzen sowie in Abgrenzung zu...
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The global crisis has led to dramatic increases in unemployment rates over most of the countries of the OECD. This book provides alternative explanations of this phenomenon. Junankar begins with surveys of the labour market: labour demand, labour supply, and labour force participation. He argues...
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Over the last decades, technological progress has brought about a multitude of standardization problems. For instance, compatibility standards ensure the interoperability of goods, which is of decisive importance when users face positive externalities in consumption. Consumers' expectations are...
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Services from information technology to research to finance are now as subject to international trade as goods have been for decades. What are the labor market consequences of the recent surge in services offshoring? While offshoring has traditionally been found to affect only less-skilled...
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