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Is Human Capital Losing from Outsourcing? Evidence for Austria and Poland

Lorentowicz, Andzelika - 2006

Feenstra and Hanson (1997) have argued in the context of the North American Free Trade Agreement that US outsourcing to … skill part. As a result, skilled workers in Austria are losing from outsourcing, while gaining in Poland. In Austria …. In both countries outsourcing contributes roughly 35 percent to these changes in the relative wages for skilled worker …

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Outsourcing in Contests

Meland, Frode - 2006

We study ex post outsourcing of production in an imperfectly discriminating contest, interpreted here as a research … tournament or a procurement contest for being awarded some production contract. We find that the possibility of outsourcing …, outsourcing reduces the procurement costs of inducing a given level of effort if the contest organizer can collect entry fees …

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The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries

Kunze, Astrid - 2017

Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...

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Secrecy Jurisdiction

Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2015

This paper surveys tax haven legislation and links the literature on tax havens to the literature on asymmetric information. I argue that the core aim of tax haven legislation is to create private information (secrecy) for the users of tax havens. This leads to moral hazard and transaction costs...

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Climate Policy and Development

Gersbach, Hans - 2015

We propose a development-compatible refunding system designed to mitigate climate change. Industrial countries pay an initial fee into a global fund. Each country chooses its national carbon tax. Part of the global fund is refunded to developing and industrial countries, in proportion to the...

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Powering Up Developing Countries Through Integration?

Auriol, Emmanuelle - 2012

Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...

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Labor Unions, Globalization, and Mercantilism

Grieben, Wolf-Heimo - 2010

We analyze the growth and welfare effects of globalization in a dynamic Schumpeterian North-South product-cycle model. Economic growth is driven by R&D activities of Northern entrepreneurs. Top Northern production technologies are imitated by the South. In the North, there is wage bargaining...

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Food Prices and Political Instability

Arezki, Rabah - 2013

We examine the effects that variations in the international food prices have on democracy and intra-state conflict using panel data for over 120 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that in Low Income Countries increases in the international food prices lead to a...

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Developing Country Second-Mover Advantage in Competition Over Environmental Standards and Taxes

Groenert, Valeska - 2014

We show that, in competition between a developed country and a developing country over environmental standards and taxes, the developing country may have a ‘second-mover advantage.' In our model, firms do not unanimously prefer lower environmental-standard levels. We introduce this feature to...

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International Reserves Before and After the Global Crisis : Is There No End to Hoarding?

Aizenman, Joshua - 2015

We evaluate the impact of the global financial crisis (GFC) and recent structural changes in the patterns of hoarding international reserves (IR). We confirm that the determinants of IR hoarding evolve with developments in the global economy. During the pre-GFC period of 1999-2006, gross saving...

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