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Gender and comparative advantage: Feminist-heterodox theorizing about globalization

Osterreich, Shaianne T. - In: Economies 7 (2019) 2, pp. 1-12

Heterodox feminist scholars have argued that global trade patterns reflect patterns of competitive advantage-rather than comparative advantage-and that that competitive advantage is gendered. Further, they have suggested that we need more theoretical and empirical scholarship in this area. This...

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Recruitment Process Outsourcing: Eine Szenariostudie zur Akzeptanz von Outsourcing-Maßnahmen in der Personalauswahl

Giardini, Angelo; Kabst, Rüdiger - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 22 (2008) 4, pp. 370-387

Mit dem Outsourcing von Personalfunktionen und -prozessen wird in der Unternehmenspraxis versucht, Kosten- und … Flexibilisierungsvorteile zu generieren. Während die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung zu den Determinanten von Outsourcing-Aktivitäten weit … vorangeschritten ist, sind empirische Studien zu den Wirkungen von Outsourcing allerdings noch immer selten. Insbesondere Effekte auf …

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Monitoring, endogenous comparative advantage, and immigration

Qirjo, Dhimitri - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-22

We propose a theory of free movement of goods and labor between two economies in the presence of moral hazard. Each country produces two final goods where the productive efforts of workers cannot be perfectly observed, or verified only in the complex industry. We show that national institutional...

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Erneuerbare Energien: Deutschland baut Technologie-Exporte aus

Groba, Felix; Kemfert, Claudia - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 45, pp. 23-29

Der Markt für erneuerbare Energien boomt in Deutschland seit Jahren. Durch die Energiewende wird er noch weiter wachsen. Auch weltweit steigt die Nachfrage nach erneuerbaren Energien. Deutsche Anbieter von Techniken zur Nutzung erneuerbarer Energien sind weltweit führend. Deutschland ist nach...

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Entrepreneurship Versus Joblessness: Explaining the Rise in Self-Employment

Falco, Paolo; Haywood, Luke - In: Journal of Development Economics 118 (2016), pp. 245-265

A large share of the workforce throughout the developing world is self-employed, and this proportion has increased in recent decades. Assessments of this development vary, with pull factors such as high returns to capital contrasted with push factors such as barriers to more desirable salaried...

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Welfare Effects of Intellectual Property in a North-South Model of Endogenous Growth with Comparative Advantage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-5, pp. 1-24

This paper develops a model for analyzing the costs and benefits of intellectual property enforcement in LDCs. The North is more productive than the South and is the only source of innovator. There are two types of goods, and each bloc has a comparative advantage in producing a specific type of...

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Irrelevance of competitive advantage for the benefits of international trade

Siggel, Eckhard - In: The Open Economics Journal 5 (2012), pp. 15-20

International competitiveness is often regarded as crucial for the attainment of gains from trade, which may lead policy makers to subsidize exports. This view is based on confusion between the concepts of competitive and comparative advantage. The paper argues that when comparative advantage is...

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Analysis of the Trade Relations Between the Republic of Macedonia and the Federal Republic of Germany

Miteva-Kacarski, Emilija; Stanceva-Gigov, Iskra; … - In: Economic Review: Journal of Economics and Business 13 (2015) 1, pp. 37-43

Foreign trade represents an important factor for the economic development of a single country and a basic element in the system of forms through which the openness of the economy is being realized. Taking into account the fact that the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) is the most important...

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Rural development under the European CAP: The role of diversity

Rizov, Marian - In: The Social Science Journal 42 (2005) 4, pp. 621-628

Achieving optimal diversity at community level is a key in solving the rural development problem. In this essay rural development at community level and the impact of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms are analyzed in the framework of privately provided public goods models. It is shown...

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Impact of market access and comparative advantage on regional distribution of manufacturing sector

Imran, Muhammad; Zhang, Gu; An, HuSen - In: China Finance and Economic Review 5 (2017) 4, pp. 1-14

Background: This paper discuss the effects of trade costs and comparative technology on industry location for the economy of China. Methods: The model assumes differences in comparative technology and different intraregional and interregional trade costs, and argues how different factors...

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