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German Foreign Direct Investment and Wages
Lochner, Stefan; Broll, Udo - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2007
Over the last decade, German multinationals created about two million jobs abroad with increasing foreign direct investment (FDI). While there are many reasons for firms to go multinational and probably just as many for Germany's high unemployment, this paper aims to investigate the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226124
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German Foreign Direct Investment and Wages
Lochner, Stefan; Broll, Udo - 2007
Over the last decade, German multinationals created about two million jobs abroad with increasing foreign direct investment (FDI). While there are many reasons for firms to go multinational and probably just as many for Germany's high unemployment, this paper aims to investigate the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296822
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Global Value Chains and Developing Country Employment: A Literature Review
Shepherd, Ben - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013
This paper provides a review of the available literature on global value chains (GVCs) and employment markets in … mixed as regards pure processing trade (assembly), however: the limited data available on firms engaged purely in these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277130
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Sophistication in Service Exports and Economic Growth
Mishra, Saurabh; Lundstrom, Susanna; Anand, Rahul - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 55, pp. 1-4
exports have to overcome. Services are no longer exclusively an input for trade in goods, but have become a “final export” for …Services can now be stored and traded digitally, and they are not subject to many of the trade barriers that physical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001855
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Trade, technology, and prosperity: An account of evidence from a labor-market perspective
Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2017
Trade and technological change continually alter the workplace and labor-market outcomes, with consequences for economy …-quarter of changes in labor-market outcomes (wage inequality then and manufacturing job losses now) was predicted by trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011759920
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Did NAFTA Help Mexico? An Assessment After 20 Years
Weisbrot, Mark; Lefebvre, Stephan; Sammut, Joseph - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014
This paper compares the performance of the Mexican economy with that of the rest of the region over the past 20 years, based on the available economic and social indicators, and with its own past economic performance. Among the results it finds that Mexico ranks 18th out of 20 Latin American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741288
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Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Sectoral and Macroeconomic Perspectives for Germany, the EU and the US
Irawan, Tony; Welfens, Paul J. J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
could bring a considerable increase of exports and output as well as changes in the composition of output and employment …The EU and the US have started negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) which …. Thus export simulation studies in combination with input output analysis and employment analysis is useful. In the analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884392
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Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Sectoral and Macroeconomic Perspectives for Germany, the EU and the US
Irawan, Tony; Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2014
could bring a considerable increase of exports and output as well as changes in the composition of output and employment …The EU and the US have started negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) which …. Thus export simulation studies in combination with input output analysis and employment analysis is useful. In the analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352789
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Jobless Growth in the Central and Eastern European Countries
Onaran, Özlem - Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University … - 2008
order to test the effect of domestic factors (wages and output) and international factors (exports, imports, and foreign … direct investment) on employment during the era of post-transition recovery. The findings indicate that employment does not … number of cases where employment is completely de-linked from output. An impressive speed of integration to the European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027478
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Transatlantic trade and investment partnership : sectoral and macroeconomic perspectives for Germany ; the EU and the US
Irawan, Tony; Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2014
could bring a considerable increase of exports and output as well as changes in the composition of output and employment …The EU and the US have started negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) which …. Thus export simulation studies in combination with input output analysis and employment analysis is useful. In the analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354546