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Spatial Patterns of Foreign Direct Investment: Do Agglomeration Effects Explain the Spatial Pattern of FDI in Latin America and Asia: a Spatial Econometric Analysis
Orr, Kaitlyn - 2008
Emerging economic theory attempts to explain multinational enterprises' decisions to locate foreign direct investment in certain countries at the expense of others. Recent literature explores the reasons why FDI into a host country may depend on FDI in neighboring countries. This paper extends...
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Sovereign ratings and their asymmetric response to fundamentals
Broto Pelegrín, Carmen; Molina Sánchez, Luis - 2014
La evolución de los ratings soberanos es profundamente asimétrica, ya que las fases de bajadas de la calificación crediticia suelen ser más bruscas y de mayor intensidad que las de subidas. Dicho de otro modo, una vez que un país pierde su calificación inicial, transcurre un período...
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Labor turnover in the child-care industry: voice and exit
Hatch, Lynn A. - 2009
What relationship exists between working conditions and teacher turnover in child-care (early care and education) programs? Research has shown high staff turnover is a major factor affecting the quality of care. Using a new survey and data set I designed of union and randomly selected non-union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468203
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Labor market imperfections: effects on occupational injuries and earnings
Germiniasi, Andrea - 2010
Trade unions and gender discrimination are generally considered as sources of labor market imperfections. My … relationship between union coverage and work-related injuries. Trade unions play a central role in establishing a safe work place …. Unions provide protection against dismissal without just cause and may favor the assignment of an injured worker to a …
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14.662 Labor Economics II, Spring 2005
Autor, David H.; Piore, Michael J. - 2005
The development and evolution of labor market structures and institutions. Particular focus on competing explanations of recent developments in the distribution of wage and salary income and in key institutions and organizational structures. Special attention to theories of worker motivation and...
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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006
Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and...
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Intellectual Property Strategies and the Returns to R&D
Arora, Ashish; Ceccagnoli, Marco; Cohen, Wesley - 2000
Although the prospect of obtaining patent protection is believed to encourage R&D investments and thus the rate of inventive activity, there is little by way of direct evidence to support this belief. We use original data from the 1994 Carnegie Mellon survey on the appropriation of R&D in the US...
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Financial Institutions and The Wealth of Nations: Tales of Development
Tong, Jian; Xu, Chenggang - 2004
Interactions between economic development and financial development are studied by looking at the roles of financial institutions in selecting R&D projects (including for both imitation and innovation). Financial development is regarded as the evolution of the financing regimes. The e?ectiveness...
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Patent Policy, R&D and Economic Growth.
Chu, Chi Ho Angus - 2008
The literature on R&D-driven economic growth suggests that technological innovations result from entrepreneurial activities such as R&D investments. In the first two chapters of this dissertation, I develop tractable frameworks to characterize and quantitatively evaluate the effects of patent...
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Globalization and the Determinants of Innovation in BRICS versus OECD Economies: A Macroeconomic Study
Khan, Abdullah M.; Roy, Priya A. - 2011
This study examines the influence of select macroeconomic variables and globalization variables on the volume of patented innovations in five industrialized OECD countries (the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Japan, and Australia) and in five emerging countries known as BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India,...
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