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Is more mobility good? Firm mobility and the low wage-low productivity trap

Seguino, Stephanie - 2005

productivity growth in semi-industrialized economies. These effects are hypothesized to operate through the negative impact of firm … raise productivity in defense of profits, contributing to a low wage-low productivity trap. This paper presents empirical … link between increased firm mobility and lower wages, as well as slower productivity growth over the period 1970-2000. …

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The effect of search frictions on wages

van den Berg, Gerard J.; van Vuuren, Aico - 2003

transitions, and this allows for estimation of the degree of search frictions. The firm data are informative on labor productivity … difference between labor productivity and wages in a market depends on the degree of frictions and other determinants. We correct …

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Competition and the location of overseas assembly

Swenson, Deborah L. - 2006

How does international competition affect overseas outsourcing? While it is commonly believed that international competition enables firms to desert high cost countries in favor of low wage locations, the frequency of such responses may be reduced if the movement of outsourcing activities...

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Offshoring, employment and wages

Bramucci, Alessandro - 2016

This paper reviews the debate on the economic effect of the international fragmentation of production, also known as "offshoring", and provides a preliminary investigation of the impact of intermediate imported inputs on employment and wages in five European countries (Germany, Spain, France,...

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Externalities of non-cooperative tax policy in the globally integrated market

Tomohara, Akinori - 2002

This paper investigates efficiency losses caused by independent tax systems and proposes ways of remedying this coordination failure Whereas the harmful effects of tariff competition have been thoroughly explored in the trade policy literature little is known about the externalities that result...

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Services Trade and Policy

Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard - 2009

general pattern of productivity growth and industrial development. This paper surveys the literature on services trade …

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The IMF in a world of private capital markets

Eichengreen, Barry; Kletzer, Kenneth; Mody, Ashoka - 2005

The IMF attempts to stabilize private capital flows to emerging markets by providing public monitoring and emergency finance. In analyzing its role we contrast cases where banks and bondholders do the lending. Banks have a natural advantage in monitoring and creditor coordination, while bonds...

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Immigration and public spending

Böheim, René; Mayr, Karin - 2005

We examine the effect of immigration on public spending from a theoretical (political economic) and an empirical perspective. We distinguish between public spending on private goods and on public goods. Our model implies that whether immigration increases or decreases public spending primarily...

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Weakness in investment growth: Causes, implications and policy responses

Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska; Ye, Lei Sandy; … - 2017

Investment growth in emerging market and developing economies has slowed sharply since 2010. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the causes and implications of this slowdown and presents a menu of policy responses to improve investment growth. It reports four main results. First, the...

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Joining the supply chain: A firm-level perspective from Southeast Asia

Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2014

This paper undertakes a comparative, firm-level analysis of joining the supply chain in five Southeast Asian economies to improve our understanding of fragmentation of manufacturing across borders. The research maps supply chains and conducts firm-level econometric analysis on 5,900 enterprises....

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