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Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly dealing with challenges shaped by the new geopolitical and trade … technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures. Although trade costs associated with these … international network of subsidiaries, and those that are located in trading partners with deep preferential trade agreements can …
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This paper studies the relationship between immigration and offshoring by examining whether an influx of foreign workers reduces the need for firms to relocate jobs abroad. We exploit a Danish quasi-natural experiment in which immigrants were randomly allocated to municipalities using a...
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How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...
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countries to the EU15 and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). This is likely to dominate migration flows into the EU …The South-North migration corridor, i.e. migration flows to the EU from Africa, the Middle East and EU neighbouring … countries in the East, have overtaken the East-West migration corridor, i.e. migration flows from Central and East European …
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determinants and human capital on migration and vice versa. The period under analysis is 2005-2019 and considers mobility from five …
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, focusing on the instrumental role of migration. In particular, we investigate how climate-induced migration in developing … ‘quantity-quality’ trade-off. These effects partially offset the damages of climate change, even for those who do not migrate. …
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This study examines the impact of a behavioral intervention on reducing discrimination against Venezuelan migrants in the screening of home rental applications conducted by Ecuadorian real estate agents (REAs). Given that Venezuelan migrants represent the second-largest migratory group globally,...
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We analyze a two-country model of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Two firms, each of which is originally situated in … relocate R&D activities. Finally, they engage in product-market competition. Our main points are: first, FDI liberalization … knowledge generated and obtained abroad flows back to the domestic country. Third, the potential of R&D offshoring makes FDI …
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Over the years FDI activities from developing countries have grown very rapidly and most of these investments end up in … other developing countries. Such FDI flows are formally known as South-South FDI. This paper attempts to compare the … characteristics of South-South FDI versus North-South FDI in the context of India. The analysis is carried at two levels. First we …
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Ever since India decided to globalize, concentrated effort was made to attract Japanese participation through foreign direct investment. However, response from Japan has been rather subdued. This paper attempts to gain some insight into this reluctance of Japanese investors by studying the...
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