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This thesis is a collection of four stand-alone essays on international competition for human capital, together with a general introduction and some concluding remarks. The first essay deals with decentralized public education and human capital mobility. The international mobility of...
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We study a model of tax competition between two countries when both skilled and unskilled workers make their migration decisions simultaneously and wages are endogenously determined. If both factors of production are allowed to migrate freely and when the demand for skilled labor is not so...
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According to the disciplining hypothesis, globalization restrains governments by inducing increased budgetary pressure … globalization ("compensation hypothesis"). Employing two different datasets and various measures of globalization, we analyze … whether globalization has indeed influenced the composition of government expenditures. For a sample of 108 countries, we …
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, mit der Teilhabe Indiens an der Globalisierung. Dabei stellt er fest, dass die Reformpolitik der letzten zehn Jahre trägt … Indian participation in the globalization. He assesses that the reforms in India lead to economic and social process of …
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analyzing the nexus labour standards - labour market outcomes - globalization. The first part, Chapter 2, is a theoretical … analysis of the effects of globalization on the equilibrium labour market policy, employment and wages. The policy instrument … considered is a minimum wage set by the government and influenced by two lobby groups. Globalization is modelled as an increase …
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literature dealing with child labor. The economic theory of child labor can be roughly subdivided into the economic theory of … child labor in closed and open economies respectively. Summed up, the literature on the normative theory of child labor in … skilled labor which would lower the wage rate of the ruling skilled elite. The implication of the economic theory of child …
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The merger wave that took place during the first phase of globalization, which lasted from 1895 to 1914, changed the … successful during this period. Noteworthy, studies that evaluate the success of mergers during the first phase of globalization …) showed that mergers occur if markets are overvalued. Hence, my empirical finding for the first phase of globalization in …
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Wird über Nachhaltigkeit gesprochen, so stellt sich der Eindruck ein, es gehe um einen Begriff, den bestimmte Akteure benutzen, um mit ihm interessengeleitete Praktiken zu legitimieren. Der ironische Gehalt dieser rhetorischen Figur liegt in der Überschätzung des Begriffs der Nachhaltigkeit...
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production among countries since the value-added created by trade is forecasted based on a sound theory of production. This makes …
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essential tool to stimulate growth and enable firms to master the competition brought about by the forces of globalization. In … specific needs of targeted markets. All these developments are leading to the “globalization of innovation”. Based on recent …
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