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The paper explores the link between international economic integration and technological capability in colonial India. The example of iron industry shows that many new ideas and skills flowed into India from Europe, but not all met with commercial success. The essay suggests that in those fields...
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In several sectors of industrial research an accelerating trend towards outsourcing ofresearch and development tasks can be observed. This study analyzes the significanceand importance of this trend. For this purpose, the study conducted interviews, workshopsand internet research on selected...
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This case follows Sethu Sethunarayanan, Director of the non-profit Center for the De-velopment of Disadvantaged People (CDDP), which is dedicated to the improvement of the Irula tribe in rural villages of southeast India. The Irulas specialize in catching rats, an activity which provides the...
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We introduce search unemployment à la Pissarides into Melitz’ (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms. We allow wages to be individually or collectively bargained and analytically solve for the equilibrium. We find that the selection effect of trade influences labor market outcomes....
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The challenges faced by businesses in Europe are determined by the increasing amount of competition in global commodity markets and also changing conditions in employment markets. Much more efficient information and communication technology (IT and internet), decreasing importance of...
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We document the recent phenomenon of uphill flows of capital from nonindustrial toindustrial countries and analyze whether this pattern of capital flows has hurt growth innonindustrial economies that export capital. Surprisingly, we find that there is a positivecorrelation between current...
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This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namelythe relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-basedemployment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs)...
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Im Rahmen der Diplomarbeit ist in Zusammenarbeit mit der IHK zu Schwerineine Befragung der Unternehmen des verarbeitenden Gewerbes und derDienstleistungsbranche Westmecklenburgs zum Thema "Analyse der Auslandsaktivitätenvon Unternehmen in Westmecklenburg" durchzuführen.Die Analyse soll dazu...
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In seiner Jahressitzung 2003 hat sich das Kuratorium des RKW - Rationalisierungs-und Innovationszentrums der Deutschen Wirtschaft mitder Finanzierung des deutschen Mittelstands im Zeitalter derGlobalisierung auseinandergesetzt. Die wichtigsten Beiträge derKuratoriumsmitglieder werden hier...
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Die Globalisierung ist für kleine und mittlere deutsche Unternehmen einegroße Herausforderung. Sie zwingt alle …
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