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China's march to prosperity : reforms to avoid the middle-income trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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Minimum Wages and Firm Exports : Evidence from Vietnamese Manufacturing Firms
Nguyen, Dong Xuan - 2021
-intensive firms raise their amount of exports in response to increasing minimum wage levels. Being exposed to increasing minimum wage …
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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...
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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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Did Japanese direct investment in Korea suppress indigenous industrialization in the 1930s? : evidence from country-level factory entry patterns
Arimoto, Yutaka; Lee, Changmin - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
, even at a very early stage of industrialization. …
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Foreign Manufacturing Multinationals and the Transformation of the Chinese Economy: New Measurements, New Perspectives
Moran, Theodore H. - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2011
-intensity of exports increases, the percentage of the value of the final product that derives from imported components rises … from deployment of worldwide earnings is to bolster production, employment, R&D, and local purchases in their home markets …
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Global Supply Chains at Work in Central and Eastern European Countries : Impact of FDI on Export Restructuring and Productivity Growth
Damijan, Jože P. - 2013
effects of FDI are, however, heterogenous across countries. While more advanced core CEECs succeeded in boosting exports in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079696
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WAS LATIN AMERICA CORRECT IN RELYING IN FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT TO IMPROVE EMPLOYMENT RATES?
Vacaflores, Diego E. - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 11 (2011) 2
This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on employment generation for a group of Latin …-Bover/Blundell-Bond system estimator, I find that FDI has a positive and significant effect on the employment generation in host countries, which …
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Behaviour of Belgian firms in the context of globalisation : lessons from the conference on “International Trade : Threats and Opportunities in a Globalised World”
Dhyne, E.; Dresse, L.; Fuss, C.; Piette, Ch. - In: Economic Review (2011) I, pp. 73-88
market. Finally, the impact of globalisation on employment is analysed from various angles. In general, trade with low …The article summarises the main lessons of the Bank’s 2010 conference which focused on international trade and foreign … and foreign direct investment. Information technologies have a key role in the development of trade in services …
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