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Globalization and Imperfect Labor Market Sorting
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2011
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 workers and firms in industries with greater comparative advantage. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208585
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Liberalized Trade and Worker-Firm Matching
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2012
matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce the cost of imports have an ambiguous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208602
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The evolution of bank boards of directors in New York, 1840-1950
White, Eugene N.; Bodenhorn, Howard - 2014
Contemporary bank governance is criticized for manager-dominated (insider) boards of directors, but from the beginning of the nineteenth century, bank presidents appear also to have operated as chairmen of the boards of directors. However, the managers were constrained by a variety of rules that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396829
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"Race or People": Federal Race Classifications for Europeans in America, 1898-1913
Perlmann, Joel - 2001
In this paper, I follow the development of the classification scheme discussions closely through its formative decade, from the last years of the 1890s through about 1913, by which time three revealing publications close the prewar developments: the United States Immigration Commission's massive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263261
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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....
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Globalization and developing countries - a shrinking tax base?
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin - 2006
This paper evaluates the impact of globalization on tax bases of countries at varying stages of development. We see … globalization as a process that induces countries to embrace greater trade and financial integration. This in turn should shift …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322726
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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
What is the impact of import competition from low-wage countries (LWCs) on inflationary pressure in Europe? This paper examines whether labor-intensive exports from emerging Europe, Asia, and other global regions have a uniform impact on producer prices in Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430088
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Does globalization create superstars?
Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - 2007
To examine the impact of globalization on managerial compensation, we consider a matching model where a number of firms … compete both in the product market and in the managerial market. We show that globalization, i.e. the simultaneous integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315582
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Globalization and developing countries - a shrinking tax base?
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin - 2006
This paper evaluates the impact of globalization on the tax bases of countries at varying stages of development. We see … globalization as a process that induces countries to embrace greater trade and financial integration, and macro stabilization. This …" taxes. We confirm the robustness of the main results to IV methodology, where trade globalization is inferred from applying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285297