This paper focuses on the ability of the labor market to correctly match heterogeneous workers to jobs within a given … industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched worker-firm data from Sweden, we find strong … evidence that openness improves the matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. This suggests that there …

The activities of multinational enterprises drive the economic globalization process to a very large degree. This paper … lists some facts about their dominant role in all channels of globalization. Therefore, the importance of multinational …' activities in the analysis of the globalization process. …

Abgrenzung zu unterkomplexen Perspektiven auf die Globalisierung wird deren multiskalarer und politisch gestalteter Charakter … hervorgehoben. Basierend auf diesen theoretischen Überlegungen und Fallstudien zur Automobil‑, Elektronik- und Bekleidungsindustrie … on globalization, the article argues that global production networks are multiscalar and politically shaped phenomena …

This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …

switch from entrepreneurship to workers, while education does not explain, in a statistically significant level, switching …Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average …

import protection on apparel goods (clothing and footwear) at high levels and restricted imports from many important trading …