Though the Baltic Sea countries have displayed substantial reform-facilitated growth and trading activity over the last decade, significant trade barriers still exist. We analyse their implications, using a CGEmodel. Besides the “usual suspects” (tariffs, subsidies, and service barriers) and...

When production functions are estimated as frontier functions, the deviations from the frontier can be interpreted as individual inefficiency estimates. Unfortunately, it has recently been shown that efficiency differences across individuals are very often statistically insignificant. In this...

Little is known about wage determination by multinationals, despite the much-discussed role of globalisation upon wage dispersion. Here we examine industry- and host-country-specific 1998 data on compensation of foreign affiliates of U.S. firms and compare that with U.S. labour-market data. We...

Based on research in management compensation and on the theory of international diversification, this paper analyzes the impact of executive compensation on the success of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) between U.S. and German firms. The results show that differences in the level and structure...

Little is known about wage determination by multinationals, despite the much-discussed role of globalisation upon wage dispersion. Here we examine industry- and host-country-specific 1998 data on compensation of foreign affiliates of U.S. firms and compare that with U.S. labour-market data. We...

This study investigates the relationship between state-level attributes and employment of workers in the US by foreign owned firms (FDI-related employment, hereafter). In particular, we investigate the role of state-level business incentives in influencing the employment outcomes of...

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the occupational task profile using rich individual-level panel data. Our main results suggest that, when only considering within-industry changes in offshoring, we identify a moderate wage reduction due to offshoring for...