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Small businesses are increasingly becoming the drivers of the holistic growth of a nation and also contributing to global development across sectors and some regions. Despite these considerations, overall the participation of MSMEs in international trade has remained insignificant and sparse....
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Could foreign direct investment (FDI) contribute to improving developing countries' participation in global value … chains (GVC)? This is the main issue addressed in this paper. Indeed, FDI seems to be, at least theoretically, a mean to … value of the investment is a more significant indicator than the share of FDI in GDP in developing countries. The more FDI …
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Coordination in collective wage setting can constrain potential monopoly gains to unions in non-traded-goods industries. Countries with national wage coordination can thus stabilize overall employment against fluctuations and shocks in the world economy. We test this theory by exploring...
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and a novel domestic extensive margin. The domestic extensive margin allows identification of globalization and specific … effects of globalization and European integration. We find strong positive effects of globalization and also significant but …
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Foreign trade and foreign direct investments (FDI) are key elements for economic development and growth of both a … country and its regions. This paper focuses on foreign trade and FDI in Austrian regions (Bundesländer). Unfortunately, data …
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evidence we do find is most likely due to factors unrelated to US-Mexico integration. While migration, trade, and FDI may …
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four widely-advocated policies: removing explicit restrictions to trade and FDI; promoting domestic competition; improving … the adaptability of labour markets; and ensuring adequate levels of infrastructure capital. The analysis covers FDI and … most modes of cross-border services supply. It first describes trends in trade, FDI and the four sets of policies using a …
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This study analyzes the effects of increased trade with China and Eastern Europe on manufacturing employment in 1,146 NUTS-3 regions of 17 Western European countries from 1991 to 2011. Building on Autor et al. (2013) we aim at identifying the causal effects of an increase in import and export...
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For a long time globalization could be seen everywhere but in gravity estimates. We offer evidence how globalization …
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