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The Impact of Economic Globalization on the Shadow Economy in Egypt

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2017

This study examines the economic globalization and the shadow economy nexus in Egypt. Using time series data from 1976 … economic globalization is negative and statistically significant for the first three years following the shock. This finding is … obtained by controlling for several intermediary channels in globalization-shadow economy nexus such as education, government …

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Job Search, Unemployment Protection and Informal Work in Advanced Economies

Long, Iain - 2018

This paper investigates the incentives that may induce workers to supplement income from unemployment benefits by engaging in temporary informal work. Using a dynamic model of job-search with moral hazard that incorporates a stylised schedule of benefit payments, we describe how informal sector...

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Maquiladoras and Informality : A Mixed Blessing

Heid, Benedikt - 2012

Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. At the same time, a large proportion of its labor force remains employed in the informal sector. Since one of the main objectives of the maquiladora program was to increase formal employment, we...

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Managers as Knowledge Carriers - Explaining Firms' Internationalization Success with Manager Mobility

Meinen, Philipp - 2018

How does “what managers know” affect firm performance on international markets? This question is of considerable importance in the international economic literature. Answering it will be key for comprehending the way firms' varying performance on international markets is shaped by the human...

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Worker-Specific Effects of Globalisation

Egger, Hartmut - 2009

This paper sets up a general equilibrium model, in which firms are heterogeneous due to productivity differences and workers have fairness preferences and hence provide full effort only if their factor return is sufficiently high. With the wage considered to be fair by workers depending on the...

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International Trade, Union Wage Premia, and Welfare in General Equilibrium

Kreickemeier, Udo - 2011

We study how two distinct forms of globalisation, trade cost reductions and opening up of trade in previously shielded sectors, affect sector-specific wages, employment levels and aggregate welfare in a two-country model of general oligopolistic equilibrium (GOLE) with partly unionised labour...

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International Trade, Factor Mobility and the Persistence of Cultural-Institutional Diversity

Belloc, Marianna; Bowles, Samuel - 2021

Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...

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Pollution, Shadow Economy and Corruption : Theory and Evidence

Biswas, Amit K. - 2013

We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public administration. Production in the shadow economy allows firms to avoid environmental regulation policies; a large informal sector may be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our...

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Globalisation and the Mix of Wage and Profit Taxes

Haufler, Andreas - 2006

This paper analyses the development of the ratio of corporate taxes to wage taxes using a simple political economy model with internationally mobile and immobile firms. Among other results, our model predicts that countries reduce their corporate tax rate, relative to the wage tax, either when...

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Wage Bargaining and Multinational Firms in General Equilibrium

Eckel, Carsten; Egger, Hartmut - 2021

number of competitors and long-run effects after firm entry/exit. This allows us to identify possible globalization paths and …

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