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The Evolution of Urban Concentration Around the World: A Panel Approach
Gaviria, Alejandro; Stein, Ernesto H. - 2000
In this paper, we use a panel approach to study population growth in major cities around the world. We find that major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327183
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Globalization of Sports : the Case of Professional Football and itsInternational Management Challenges
Dolles, Harald; Söderman, Sten - Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien <Tokyo - 2005
The formation and the diversity of most types of organizations goinginternational are well researched. However, some aspects of postmodernlife, such as sports and entertainment, are presently growing in importanceand management complexity.
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Investment climate and employment growth: The impact of access to finance, corruption and regulations across firms
Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés, Carmen - 2007
Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paper focuses on how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278203
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The Networks of Inter-Industry Flows in a Sam Framework
Santos, Susana - 2018
The networks of nominal flows between industries in a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) framework are studied. The flows of the SAM submatrices of production (or output of goods and services) and intermediate consumption, are identified, which are constructed from the supply and use tables of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907867
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Towards an employer brand - An evidence-based approach to develop an employer brand: A case study of a Berlin-based business incubator in the online and mobile gaming industry
Fischer, Ingo; Kieler, Julia - 2015
This paper analyses and lays the ground for the development of an employer brand that is designed to help a Berlin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282564
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Testing for discrimination against lesbians of different marital status: A field experiment
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2013
lesbians in Germany. Applications for four fictional female characters are sent out in response to job advertisements: a …'. Different results are obtained for the two cities investigated, Munich and Berlin. While single lesbians and lesbians in a … based on sexual orientation has been found in Berlin. Furthermore, for a subset of our data we can compare the effects of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368255
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Offshoring Along the Production Chain
Harms, Philipp; Lorz, Oliver; Urban, Dieter - 2009
Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production steps....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430068
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International trade, factor mobility and the persistence of cultural-institutional diversity
Belloc, Marianna; Bowles, Samuel - 2009
Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287852
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Globalization and migration: A "unified brain drain" model
Brezis, Elise S.; Soueri, Ariel - 2012
Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336067
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Low-Wage Import Competition, Inflationary Pressure, and Industry Dynamics in Europe
Auer, Raphael; Degen, Kathrin; Fischer, Andreas M. - 2011
prices in Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. In a panel covering 110 (4-digit) NACE industries from 1995 …
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