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Embryo Adoption: Implications of Personhood, Marriage, and Parenthood
McMillen, Brooke - 2008
One’s personal claims regarding personhood will influence his moral belief regarding embryo adoption. In Chapter One, I consider the personhood of the human embryo. If the human embryo is a person, we are morally obligated to permit the practice of embryo adoption as an ethical means to save...
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Vom Informations- und Konsultationsgremium zum Verhandlungspartner? Der Europäische Ford-Betriebsrat im Verselbständigungsprozess der Visteon-Komponentensparte bei Ford of Europe
Mählmeyer, Valentina - 2011
Ford of Europe) zeigt die Autorin, dass der Status des EFB auf einer temporären „verhandelten Ordnung“ gründet. … Beispiel des Europäischen Ford-Betriebsrats (EFB) untersucht die Autorin die Bedingungen, unter denen sich ein handlungsfähiger … Vereinbarungen zwischen dem EFB und dem Ford-Management (vor allem im Verselbständigungsprozess der Visteon-Komponentensparte bei …
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Locating Foreign Affiliates in Germany: The Case of Swedish MNEs
Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina - 2001
sensitive to the level of wage costs in Germany and in other potential locations in high-income Europe, but not to the level of … wage costs in Sweden or low-income countries in Europe. Finally, we find that the cross-wage elasticity showing the effect … of increases in labour costs in other high-income locations in Europe on employment in German affiliates of Swedish MNEs …
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Foreign-Owned Firms in the German Labour Market
Jungnickel, Rolf; Keller, Dietmar - 2003
Compared to other Western European countries, Germany was less successful in attracting FDI in the 1990s. The falling behind in inward-FDI should be no problem if foreign-owned firms (FoFs) were only substitutes for indigenous firms. However, to the extent they differ significantly in terms of...
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Market Dynamics in Supply Chains: The Impact of Globalisation and Consolidation on Food Companies' Mark-Ups
Kaditi, Eleni A. - 2011
This paper examines whether ownership and increased competitive pressure affect foodretailers’ market power, analysing whether all actors involved in the food supply chaindeviate from the pricing behaviour that exists under perfect competition. A methodproposed by Roeger (1995) is used to...
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Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment of OECD Countries 1991-2001
Gast, Michael W. - 2005
concentration of FDI within Western and Central Europe. Stock market booms boost FDI but not exports. Differences in significance …
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PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH: AN ANALYSIS OF CHALLENGES FACING INDUSTRY AND THE CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
Spielman, David J.; von Grebmer, Klaus - 2004
Public-private partnerships offer potentially important opportunities for pro-pooragricultural research in developing countries. Yet in the international agricultural researchcommunity--and with regard to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research(CGIAR) itself--we see few...
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How Low Business Tax Rates Attract Multinational Headquarters: Municipality-Level Evidence from Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter H.; Merlo, Valeria - 2008
Most existing empirical evidence on the impact of profit taxationon multinational firm activity is based on cross-country data. One majordrawback of such data is that countries differ not only with regardto taxes but along other dimensions which might be hard to captureby means of observable...
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International trade and labour markets
Braun, Sebastian Till - 2010
rigid-wage Europe and a flexible-wage America. Firms can choose to serve the foreign market either through exports or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467258
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Determinants of foreign direct investment of OECD countries 1991-2001
Gast, Michael - 2005
aconcentration of FDI within Western and Central Europe. Stock marketbooms boost FDI but not exports. Differences in significance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468569