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Human Capital Formation, Income Inequality and Growth

Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2001

parental human capital;intergenerational transfers, accomplished via investment in the education of the younger generation … production is affected by 'home-education' , provided bythe parents, as well as 'public-education , which is provided equally to …

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Explaining the Variation in Empirical Estimates of Tax Elasticities of Foreign Direct Investment

de Mooij, Ruud A.; Ederveen, Sjef - 2005

investment with respect to company tax levels. To that end, we extend the meta analysis of De Mooij and Ederveen (2003) by …

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Immigration and public spending

Böheim, René; Mayr, Karin - 2005

We examine the effect of immigration on public spending from a theoretical (political economic) and an empirical perspective. We distinguish between public spending on private goods and on public goods. Our model implies that whether immigration increases or decreases public spending primarily...

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Transaction Management: Value Creation by Reducing Transaction Costs

den Butter, Frank A.G. - 2010

In this era of globalization we see an increase in specialization: the production chain issplit up in more and more … parts and the production of these parts is outsourced to thoseplaces in the world where production is relatively cheapest … and most efficient. Itimplies that transaction costs, associated with the coordination of production and tradein parts and …

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Services liberalization in the new generation of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs): How much further than the GATS?

Roy, Martin; Marchetti, Juan; Lim, Hoe - 2006

This paper attempts to fill a gap in the trade literature by providing a comprehensive overview of services liberalization commitments in the new generation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) as compared to prevailing GATS commitments and Doha Round offers. By developing a new database, the...

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Turning hills into mountains? Current commitments under the GATS and prospects for change

Adlung, Rudolf; Roy, Martin - 2005

Over the past months, it has become increasingly clear that the services negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda will not produce significant improvements on current commitments unless major new impetus is provided. In an introductory section, this paper discusses various impediments,...

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Measuring GATS mode 4 trade flows

Magdeleine, Joscelyn; Maurer, Andreas - 2008

Realistic estimates of mode 4 trade are virtually non-existent. Based on the GATS legal definition, the paper introduces the statistical conceptualization of mode 4. While showing that balance of payments labour related flows indicators, such as worker's remittances and compensation of...

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The emergence and impact of market institutions: The wolesale market for fish and other perishable commodities

Sapio, Sandro; Kirman, Alan; Dosi, Giovanni - 2011

This work introduces a special issue of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization on the emergence and impact of market institutions in wholesale fish markets. The analysis of fish markets has a respectable pedigree also in terms of the description of how they function. A major advantage...

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To abuse or not to abuse. This is the question. On whether social corporate responsibility influences human rights abuses of large multinational corporations (1990-2006)

Fiaschi, Davide; Giuliani, Elisa; Macchi, Chiara; … - 2011

We are currently observing an apparent paradox. On the one hand there is growing evidence about corporate misbehaviour and Multinational Corporations (MNCs)' violations of human rights. On the other, the largest MNCs are showing an unprecedented level of commitment to save the world through...

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Do Multinationals Influence Labor Standards? A Close Look at US Outward FDI

Wacker, Konstantin M.; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - 2011

reductions in their labor standards to attract job-creating horizontal foreign direct investment. By disentangling US FDI data …

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