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Technological progress with segmented factor markets and welfare implications for the urban poor

Mukherjee, Soumyatanu; Zafar, Sameen - 2015

Motivated by a set of stylised facts based on provincial data for India, this paper investigates the incidence of urban poverty by modelling the impact of technological progress in the formal sectors of the economy on the urban informal wage in a four-sector general equilibrium framework with...

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Tariff Jumping Foreign Investment and Capital Taxation

Weichenrieder, Alfons J.; Dehejia, Vivek H. - 2021

This paper reconsiders the welfare effects of; tariff jumping; direct investment if mobile capital is subjected to taxation. In contrast to the conventional wisdom, the receiving country may in this case gain from the incremental inflow of capital, as this diverts tax revenues from the rest of...

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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation

Benz, Sebastian - 2014

. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I … Faktorausstattung zweier Länder basiert. Das zweite Kapitel liefert eine Theorie zu Offshoring unter Imitationsrisiko. Diese Theorie …

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Technological Changes, Offshoring, and the Labor Share

Lian, Weicheng - 2019

Existing studies on the downward trend in the labor share of income mostly focus on changeswithin individual countries. I document, however, that half of the global decline in the laborshare of income can be traced to the relocation of activities between countries. I develop atwo-country model...

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Innovation, trade, and finance

Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2011

may be positive or negative, depending on foreign countries' trade position. -- innovation ; financial development ; R …

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Innovation, Trade, and Finance

Egger, Peter H. - 2013

This paper proposes a model where heterogeneous firms choose whether to undertake R&D or not. Innovative firms are more productive, have larger investment opportunities and lower own funds for necessary tangible continuation investments than non-innovating firms. As a result, they are...

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Essays on Offshoring, Wage Inequality and Innovation

Benz, Sebastian - 2014

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The evolution of comparative advantage : measurement and implications

Levchenko, Andrei A.; Zhang, Jing - 2014 - This version: December 19, 2012

We estimate productivities at the sector level for 72 countries and 5 decades, and examine how they evolve over time in both developed and developing countries. In both country groups, comparative advantage has become weaker: productivity grew systematically faster in sectors that were initially...

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Market-dependent production set

Egbert, Henrik; Naqvi, Nadeem - 2011

theory, exogenous changes in technology or primary-factor supplies alter equilibrium prices; however, government …

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Price Equalization, Trade Flows, and Barriers to Trade

Mutreja, Piyusha - 2014

In this paper we show that price equalization does not imply zero barriers to trade. There are many barrier combinations that deliver price equalization, but each combination implies a different volume of trade. We demonstrate this first theoretically in a simple two-country model and then...

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