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Estonia : Making the Most of Globalisation

Price, Robert - 2011

Estonia has already experienced many benefits of increasing international integration, most obviously in significant … convergence. From the Russian crisis in 1998 to the great recession in 2009 Estonia gained an impressive 20% in GDP per capita … recession Estonia's gap in income and productivity levels compared with the EU average was still around 30% and as the country …

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The Golden Age and the Second Globalization in Italy

Crafts, Nicholas; Magnani, Marco - 2013

After the Golden Age, Italy experienced increasing difficulties in adjusting its economy to the changing external context and to the requirements for sustaining catch-up growth at a higher level of economic development. The adjustment issue is common to advanced countries but the difficulties...

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Economic Globalisation and Convergence in Labour Market Regulation : An Empirical Assessment

Gahan, Peter G.; Mitchell, Richard; Cooney, Sean; … - 2012

A major question for the comparative analysis of industrial relations and labour market institutions has been the extent to which labour laws in different countries have converged or diverged over time. A second question is whether any convergence between labour law systems is associated with...

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Positioning Austria in the global economy : value added trade, international production sharing and global linkages

Stehrer, Robert; Stöllinger, Roman - 2013

This study investigates Austria's positions in international production sharing and global value chains exploiting the recently available Global Input-Output Database (WIOD). Researchers and policy-makers become increasingly aware of the fact that production processes are more and more organised...

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Global value chains : implications for the Austrian economy

Kulmer, Veronika; Kernitzkyi, Michael; Köberl, Judith; … - 2015

This study focuses on the implications of rising global value chains (GVCs) on international trade and analysis the impacts on small open economies. Small open economies rely heavily on international trade and are highly integrated in global production networks but have so far been hardly...

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A fragmented China

Poncet, Sandra - 2004

This paper studies the degree of integration of China's domestic market and investigates the determinants of inter-provincial trade barriers under the rubric endogenoustrade policy theory. I rely on industry-level trade flows extracted from provincial input-output tables to develop a model that...

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International fragmentation of production in the Portuguese economy: What do different measures tell us?

Amador, João; Cabral, Sónia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper analyses the relevance and the characteristics of the international fragmentation of production in the Portuguese economy. The empirical trade literature suggests different measures of fragmentation, changing the scope of the concept and using alternative sets of information. The...

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Corporate Social Responsibility along the global value chain

Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Semrau, Finn Ole - 2021

Firms are under increasing pressure to meet stakeholders’ demand for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their global value chains. We study the incentives for and investments in CSR at different stages of the production process. We analyze a model of sequential production with...

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New dimensions of adjustment to globalization

Moreno Badía, Marialuz (contributor); … - 2008

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The impact of increasing labor costs on the internationalization of Estonian firms : seven cases

Vissak, Tiia - In: Perspectives on internationalization and international …, (pp. 212-231). 2008

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