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social indicators, such as GDP growth, labour market outcomes, and poverty and inequality, for the period since the fall of … productivity. Total FDI has had only limited effects on inequality and poverty, but FDI from Germany and Austria has been found to … reduce both inequality and poverty, likely because they have benefitted mainly lower-income persons. There are differences in …
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In view of rising inequality in fast growing Asian developing countries, it is important to study the relationship … between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can … bear a complex and non-linear relationship if policy makers try to impact on one (say, inequality) by influencing the other …
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Strategy research often aims to empirically establish a causal relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable such as firm performance. For many important strategy research questions, however, traditional empirical techniques are not sufficient to establish causal effects...
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In the past decade, U.S. software firms have increasingly utilized the low-cost information technology (IT) labor force in India. Companies wishing to capture the benefits of outsourcing can engage in contracting (hiring an Indian contracting company to perform the service) or foreign direct...
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foreign direct investment (FDI) and wage inequality. We particularly check whether this relationship is non-linear, in line … linear effect in developing countries; wage inequality increases with FDI inward stock but this effect diminishes with … further increases in FDI. For developed countries, wage inequality decreases with FDI inward stock and there is no robust …
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This study investigates inequality of opportunity in educational achievements in Turkey over time. For this purpose we … inequality of opportunity in access to the PISA test as well as the inequality of opportunity of the academic achievement in the …, confirming the previous studies we find that inequality of opportunity is a large part of the inequality of educational …
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This paper presents econometric evidence for a link between a country's level of egalitarianism and its inward foreign direct investment. In order to provide a theoretical rationale for this relationship, I embed Hart and Moore's (2008) novel contractual foundation into a simple model of global...
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The relationship between democracy and economic inequality is never conclusive. This study contributes to clarifying it … contemporary democratic status, which has no effect on inequality. This paper finds that accumulated democratic experience matters …, but in an unexpected manner: Prolonged democratic stability has a positive effect on inequality. Secondly, this paper …
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.Protectionism is an increasing threat to future global economic growth. The solution lies largely in addressing inequality and …
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