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In the absence of financial frictions, the purpose of thin capitalization rules is to limit multinational firms’ possibilities of engaging in tax planning via debt shifting. This paper analyzes the effects of thin capitalization rules in the case where firms have limited access to external...
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What is the impact of import competition from low-wage countries (LWCs) on inflationary pressure in Europe? This paper examines whether labor-intensive exports from emerging Europe, Asia, and other global regions have a uniform impact on producer prices in Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, and the...
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attitudes towards globalization barriers (trade and immigration) and how important these attitudes are in how people vote. In …. Once various economic and demographic determinants of globalization barrier preferences along with voters’ ideologies on a … more traditional electoral issues, such as trade barriers, work. Focusing on the anti-globalization Swedish Democrats, we …
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Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on …
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and a novel domestic extensive margin. The domestic extensive margin allows identification of globalization and specific … effects of globalization and European integration. We find strong positive effects of globalization and also significant but …
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We estimate the short- and long-run local labor market impacts of the large increase in U.S. imports and exports that occurred over the 1970s. We exploit the sequential opening of overseas shipping container ports over the period, which generated discontinuous changes in U.S. trade ows. We find...
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Coordination in collective wage setting can constrain potential monopoly gains to unions in non-traded-goods industries. Countries with national wage coordination can thus stabilize overall employment against fluctuations and shocks in the world economy. We test this theory by exploring...
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We use a large sample of German workers to analyze the effect of low-wage competition with China and Eastern Europe (the East) on the wage structure within German manufacturing industries. Utilizing the method by Abowd et al. (1999), we decompose wages into firm and worker components. We find...
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This paper identifies globalization as a factor behind the rapid increase in executive compensation and inequality over … executive compensation, indicating that globalization is influencing compensation through pay-for-non-performance. Furthermore … firms with poor corporate governance, as one would expect if globalization has enhanced rent-capture opportunities. Overall …
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The concept of globalization refers to the growing interdependence of countries, resulting from the increasing … process are the international trade and the cross-border investment flows. Economic globalization has increased the … specialization of workers, while the companies compete in global markets. Even globalization has recently become a common topic in …
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