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Does State Ownership Really Matter? The Dynamic Alignment of China’s Resource Environment and Firm Internationalization Strategies
Ren, Monica - 2019
Recent research suggests that unequal access to home country institutional resources affects firm internationalization strategies. We add to this debate, based on an analysis of state-owned (SOEs) and non-state-owned (NSOEs) Chinese mining firms, by developing a more dynamic and multi-layered...
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Hiring and Learning in Online Global Labor Markets
Mill, Roy - 2011
This paper uses data from freelancer.com – an online platform that allows employers and freelancers to search for, and match with, each other – to study the effect of freelancers' country of origin on their likelihood to be hired. Having to rely on a relatively small number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118588
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The Internationalisation of Production, International Outsourcing and Employment in the OECD
Molnar, Margit - 2009
focus on the impact of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from OECD countries on employment in the home country of the … affected more strongly. The empirical findings in the paper suggest that the aggregate employment impact of outward FDI varies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012721055
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The Internationalisation of Production, International Outsourcing and Employment in the OECD
Molnár, Margit - 2007
focus on the impact of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from OECD countries on employment in the home country of the … affected more strongly. The empirical findings in the paper suggest that the aggregate employment impact of outward FDI varies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445821
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Trade and inequality in Europe and the US
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021
The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...
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Global Delivery Models : The Role of Talent, Speed and Time Zones in the Global Outsourcing Industry
Manning, Stephan; Larsen, Marcus M.; Bharati, Pratyush - 2017
Global delivery models (GDMs) are transforming the global IT and business process outsourcing industry. GDMs are a new form of client-specific investment promoting services integration with clients by combining client proximity with time-zone spread for 24/7 service operations. We investigate...
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China Syndrome Redux : New Results on Global Job Reallocation
Ouyang, Difei - 2020
Trade between the U.S. and China is widely thought to have contributed significantly to the decline in U.S. manufacturing employment --- sometimes called the China Syndrome. Flipping the point of view, we examine the impact on China of the trade growth between 2000 and 2007: We divide China into...
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Data, measurement and initiatives for inclusive digitalization and future of work
Nofal, María B.; Coremberg, Ariel; Sartorio, Luca - 2018
As the pace of digitalization and automation accelerates globally, and more disruptive innovations in machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics are expected, new data sources and measurement tools are needed to complement existing valuable statistics and administrative data. This is...
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International Economic Activities and the Demand for Skilled Labor : Evidence from Brazil and China
Fajnzylber, Pablo - 2016
Increases in international economic integration can lead to greater specialization according to comparative advantage, but also to the diffusion of skill-biased technologies. In developing countries characterized by relative abundance of unskilled labor, these factors can have opposite effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749038
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FDI Spillovers in China : Connecting the Missing Link between Micro and Macro
Agarwal, Natasha - 2016
spillovers. We find that provincial economic development does not systematically influence FDI spillovers. Moreover, there exists … considerable heterogeneity in the FDI spillovers not only across the 29 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions but also … that FDI spillovers in China may be affected by a combination of both the characteristics of the sector within a province …
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