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This paper focuses on the ability of the labor market to correctly match heterogeneous workers to jobs within a given industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched worker-firm data from Sweden, we find strong evidence that openness improves the matching between...
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Recent theoretical analysis suggests that a reduction in the cost of exporting increases the degree of assortative matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce the cost of imports have an ambiguous impact on matching. We combine detailed Swedish matched...
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Engagement in foreign markets can have an impact on firm organization and on the type of occupations that a firm needs. We examine the effect of globalization on the occupational mix using detailed Swedish data that cover all firms and a representative sample of the labor force for 1997-2005. We...
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International tätigen Unternehmungen stehen grundsätzlich zwei Optionen zurBesetzung vakanter Schlüsselpositionen in ausländischen Tochtergesellschaften zurVerfügung, und zwar die Rekrutierung von lokalen Fach- und Führungskräften oder dieEntsendung von Stammhausdelegierten. Die...
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Seit den siebziger Jahren wurden zahlreiche theoretische Ansätze entwickelt, welche dieBetätigung von Unternehmungen auf ausländischen Märkten zu erklären versuchen (füreinen Überblick vgl. Welge/Holtbrügge 2003, 51 ff.). Einer der prominentesten und amhäufigsten zitierten Ansätze ist...
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The internationalization of business within the last fifty years has led to a growing importanceof international human resource management (IHRM) (see, for example, Dowling et al. 1994,Desatnick and Bennet 1977, Evans et al. 2002 or Harzing/van Ruysseveldt 1995). Especiallythe role of...
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