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Japanese Business in Australia: A Management Survey of Industry Interaction with Locational Factors
Bayari, Celal - 2004
This is a discussion of research findings on the interaction of the Japanese firms with Australia’s locational factors that affect their investment decisions in Australia. The paper argues that there is a convergence as well as divergence among the sixty-five companies from three industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015223843
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Japanese Manufacturers in Australia: Analysing Their Quality Evaluation and Employee Participation
Bayari, Celal - 2010
The characteristics of Japanese transnational automotive and electronic manufacturers in their overseas operations form a major topic of analysis. This paper discusses the data from Japanese electronics and automotive (auto and auto parts) manufacturers that were subjects of the author’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015223906
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The Decline of the U.S. Manufacturing: An Explanation from Structural Change
Huang, Zongye - 2011
In this paper, I develop a three-sector model that is able to fully explain the postwar structural transformation process experienced by the United States from 1950 to 2005. The model have multiple consumption goods which are produced using dierent factor intensities. The closed economy version...
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Structural Transformation under Trade Imbalances: the Case of Postwar U.S.
Huang, Zongye - 2011
benchmark for calibration, the traditional model cannot account for the steep decline in manufacturing and rise in services in … the overall labor share decrease in the American manufacturing. The quantitative predictions replicate the labor movements … in the U.S. data, especially can properly explain the recent contraction of manufacturing employment share. This result …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015228457
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Trading Tasks: A Dynamic Theory of Offshoring
Benz, Sebastian - 2012
This paper is a dynamic extension of the well-known theory of trade in tasks by Grossman & Rossi-Hansberg (2008). In my model, a firm's offshoring decision is governed by production cost savings, but also considers potential imitation risk. I show that such a consideration reduces the level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312094
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Income distribution, technical change and the dynamics of international economic integration
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2005
This paper explores the features of a dynamic multisectoral model which focuses on the relationship between income distribution, growth and international specialization. The model is explored both for the steady-state properties and the transitory dynamics of integrated economies. Income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294524
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Analyzıng And Valuıng Of The Export Multıplıcıty Of Azerbaıjan Republıc
Suleymanov, Elchin; Zeynalov, Ayaz; Mammadov, Rufat - 2013
In this article, the export multiplicity of Azerbaijan Republic has been analyzed during 1995-2009. Firstly, the relationship between GDP on CPI has been estimated and it found as a positive and meaningful. Secondly, the effect of GDP on Net export has been estimated, where these two findings...
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Essays on Offshoring, Wage Inequality and Innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698346
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Modelling International Economic Integration: Patterns of Catching-up, Foreign Direct Investment and Migration Flows
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2004
) both in the lead and the catching-up economies. The model thus contributes to the literature on globalization and labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099856
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Income Distribution, Technical Change and the Dynamics of International Economic Integration
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2004
This paper explores the features of a dynamic multisectoral model which focuses on the relationship between income distribution, growth and international specialization. The model is explored both for the steady-state properties and the transitory dynamics of integrated economies. Income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099860