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The embeddedness of US multinational companies in the US business system: implications for HR/IR
Ferner, Anthony - Leicester Business School - 2000
The Leicester Business School Occasional Papers reflect the scholarship and research of staff, postgraduates and others associated with the school. Many of the papers take the form of preliminary reports of research in progress or explorations of theoretical ideas. Publication of such work in...
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Entrepreneurship and Higher Education: An Overviewof the Iowa State University Alumni Survey
Jolly, Robert William; Li, Yu; Orazem, Peter F.; Kimle, … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010
Entrepreneurship is a hot topic both in academic and policy circles.1 There is a growingrecognition that entrepreneurship is a driving force in economic growth and development in bothestablished and emerging economies. There is also an increasing body of evidence suggestingentrepreneurship that...
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The Role of Agriculture and Human Capital inEconomic Growth: Farmers, Schooling, and Health
Huffman, Wallace E.; Orazem, Peter F. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004
This survey reviews the existing literature, identifying the contribution of agriculture, schooling, and nutrition to economic growth and development over time and across countries. Particular attention is paid to the roles of improvements in agricultural technology and of the human capital of...
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Regionale Bildungsstrukturen und Beschäftigung in Deutschland
Tarazona, Mareike - 2007
in dieser Studie Daten zu Bildung verwendet, um die Bedeutung von Humankapital mit Daten auf der Ebene der deutschen … Raumordnungsregionen zu überprüfen. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass regionale Disparitäten für das Humankapital bestehen, die nicht im … Branchenzusammensetzung erweist sich als moderierende Variable für die Wirkung von Humankapital auf die Beschäftigungsentwicklung... …
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Bildung und Wirtschaftswachstum
Ursprung, Heinrich - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut <Kreuzlingen>
Ökonomen haben ein recht einfaches Weltbild. Das gilt insbesondere auchwenn sie sich mit Bildungsfragen beschäftigen. Ökonomen verstehen Bildung nämlich als Ausbildung, das heisst als Investition. Wie jede andere Investition verursacht ja auch die Bildung Kosten...
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Bestimmungsfaktoren des Erwerbs der allgemeinen Hochschulreife in Deutschland
Balsmeier, Benjamin; Peters, Heiko - Institut für Ökonomische Bildung <Münster, Westfalen> - 2008
Für Deutschlanf´d als ressourcenarmes Hochlohnland ist die Bildung von Humankapital ein bedeutender Faktor für das … Wirtschaftswachstum. Im Vergleich zu anderen entwickelten Volkswirtschaften ist der Anteil der Bevölkerung mit einem tertiären …
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BEA - Bureau of Economic Analysis - International Economics Accounts
United States / Bureau of Economic Analysis
The international transactions accounts provide information on trade in goods and services (including the balance of payments and the balance of trade), investment income, and government and private financial flows. In addition, the accounts measure the value of U.S. international assets and...
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Foreign (in)direct investmentand corporate taxation
Wamser, Georg - Deutsche Bundesbank <Frankfurt, Main> / … - 2008
This paper investigates the role of corporate taxation with respect to a multinational'sinvestment decision, in which the multinational can pursue either a direct or an indirectinvestment strategy. The latter involves at least three corporate entities and opens upenhanced opportunities for...
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Adapting to the China Challenge
Collinson, Simon; Sullivan-Taylor, Bridgette; Wang, Jung-Li - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2007
The fact that China is an increasingly attractive market and a magnet for foreigndirect investment is not news. The unprecedented rise of foreign direct investmentinto China – now running at over $60 billion a year – has created the largest array ofinternational mergers and acquisitions,...
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Ownership Characteristics and Access to Finance:Evidence from a Survey of Large Privatised Companiesin Hungary and Poland.
Isachenkova, Natalia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2003
We examine financial constraints and forms of finance used for investment, byanalysing survey data on 157 large privatised companies in Hungary and Poland for theperiod 1998 – 2000. The Bayesian analysis using Gibbs sampling is carried out toobtain inferences about the sample companies’...
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