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Global Idea Sourcing - An empirical investigation into the mechanisms behind the usage of foreign business sources for innovation

Sofka, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2005

Globalization has set new paradigms, especially in the business world. Breakthroughs in technology (telecommunications … regulation. Hence, companies optimize or augment their innovation activities by invoking ideas from foreign suppliers. Then again …

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CAN WE DISCERN THE EFFECT OF GLOBALIZATION ON INCOME DISTRIBUTION? EVIDENCE FROM HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003

The effects of globalization on income distribution within rich and poor countries are a matter of controversy. While … presents another attempt to discern the effects of globalization by using the new data derived directly from household surveys …

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Who Is Afraid of Globalisation? Finns´ Hopes & Fears and Realized Impacts

Kotiranta, Annu - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

According to EVAŽs annual attitude and value survey, two out of three Finns believe that globalization means loosing … indicates that the employment effects of globalization are rather modest, who is afraid of globalization and why? In this … analysis it is found that highly educated, service sector, and male employees are the least afraid of globalization …

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Globalization, Creative Destruction, and Labor Share Change: Evidence on the Determinants and Mechanism from Longitudinal Plant-level Data

Maliranta, Mika; Böckerman, Petri - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009

We examine the sources and micro-level mechanisms of the changes in the labor share of value added. We link the micro-level dynamics of the labor share change with that of productivity and wage growth. Using a useful variant of the decomposition method we make a distinction between the change in...

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Was bedeutet die Globalisierung der Industrieforschung für den Standort Deutschland?: Fünf Fragen an Heike Belitz

In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 18, pp. 227-227

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Global Business Cycles: Convergence or Decoupling?

Kose, M. Ayhan; Otrok, Christopher; Prasad, Eswar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies …

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The Effects of Globalization on Worker Training

Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We consider a three-stage game to examine how market integration affects firms’ incentives to provide general worker training. In stage 1, firms invest in productivity-enhancing training. In stage 2, they can make wage offers for each others’ workers. Finally, Cournot competition takes...

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High Skilled Migration and the Exertion of Effort by the Local Population

Epstein, Gil S.; Kunze, Astrid; Ward, Melanie E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

The design of optimal immigration policy, particularly in the face of the spiralling demand for highly skilled workers, such as IT workers and engineers, is a topical issue in the policy debate as well as the economic literature. In this paper, we present empirical evidence from firm level data...

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International Migration in the Long-Run: Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publiclysubsidized immigration in the first global century before World War I to the quotas and bans introduced...

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Human Capital Investment and Globalization in Extortionary States

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time consistent taxation, similar...

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