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A race to the bottom in labour standards? An empirical investigation
Davies, Ronald B.; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - 2011
Among the many concerns over globalization is that as nations compete for mobile firms, they will relax labour standards as a method of lowering costs and attracting investment. Using spatial estimation on panel data for 148 developing countries over 18 years, we find that the labour standards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293694
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A race to the bottom in labour standards? : an empirical investigation
Davies, Ronald B.; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - 2011 - This Draft: November 2011
Among the many concerns over globalization is that as nations compete for mobile firms, they will relax labour standards as a method of lowering costs and attracting investment. Using spatial estimation on panel data for 148 developing countries over 18 years, we find that the labour standards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732552
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A Race to the Bottom in Labour Standards? An Empirical Investigation
Davies, Ronald B.; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), … - 2011
Among the many concerns over globalization is that as nations compete for mobile firms, they will relax labour standards as a method of lowering costs and attracting investment. Using spatial estimation on panel data for 148 developing countries over 18 years, we find that the labour standards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399603
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A Race to the Bottom in Labour Standards? An Empirical Investigation
Davies, Ronald B.; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - 2017
Among the many concerns over globalization is that as nations compete for mobile firms, they will relax labour standards as a method of lowering costs and attracting investment. Using spatial estimation on panel data for 148 developing countries over 18 years, we find that the labour standards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123476
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A race to the bottom in labor standards? An empirical investigation
Davies, Ronald B.; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - In: Journal of Development Economics 103 (2013) C, pp. 1-14
One of the concerns over globalization is that as nations compete for investment, they relax labor standards to attract firms. Using spatial estimation on panel data for 135 countries over 17years, we find that the labor standards in one country are positively correlated with those elsewhere...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010679293
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The structure of multinational firms' international activities
Davies, Ronald B.; Markusen, James R. - 2020
The structure of a multinational firm, that is how its affiliates relate to one another, is critical for understanding where multinationals locate, how policy affects them, and their resilience to localized shocks. Here, we review the two main structures - market-seeking horizontal and...
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From China with love: The role of FDI from third countries on EU competition and R&D activities
Davies, Ronald B. - 2018
This report presents empirical analysis on the linkage between mergers and acquisition FDI and acquirer innovation … that concerns over whether acquisition of foreign technology is spurring faster Chinese technological growth may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012017567
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From China with love : the role of FDI from third countries on EU competition and R&D activities
Davies, Ronald B. - 2018
This report presents empirical analysis on the linkage between mergers and acquisition FDI and acquirer innovation … that concerns over whether acquisition of foreign technology is spurring faster Chinese technological growth may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011877835
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Construction of a global knowledge input-output table
Davies, Ronald B.; Kogler, Dieter F.; Yang, Guohao - 2023
number of patent applications across ten major patenting countries and the rest of the world and across 131 technology … contribute to the construction of further innovation. In addition to describing the KIO's construction, we provide a number of … stylized facts on patenting activity and the citation network. These facts illustrate the lessons that can be learned from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540366
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A comparison between traditional and knowledge input output tables
Davies, Ronald B.; Yang, Guohao - 2024
-Output Database and construct a corresponding "Knowledge" input-output dataset based on patenting information from PATSTAT. Thus, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540490