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Berger, Helge; Haan, Jakob de; Inklaar, Robert - 2003

Soon, euro area membership could more than double, with the vast majority of accession countries being quite different in economic terms compared with current members. Under the current decision-making system, this can lead to high decisionmaking costs and there is a risk that monetary policy...

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Growth and inequality : evidence from transitional economies

Ivaschenko, Oleksiy - 2002

The transitional economies of Eastern Europe (EE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU) experienced a dramatic increase in income inequality in the 1990s. In this paper I investigate the causes of unprecedented changes in income distribution using a unique panel of inequality estimates for 24...

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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world : what do we really know?

Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006

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Institutional framework and poverty : a transition economy perspective

Ahsan, Syed M. - 2001

This paper focuses on the role of institutions in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are interpreted broadly. The broadening of the poverty notion is important at least from the policy perspective. Even if one were convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to...

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Resources, agriculture, and economic growth in economies in transition

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2000

This paper reviews some reasons why natural resource abundance and extensive agriculture appear to impede economic growth around the world. The paper presents empirical, cross-sectional evidence of various aspects of this relationship in the transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe and...

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Do civil and political repression really boost foreign direct investments?

Harms, Philipp; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2001

Multinational enterprises are often accused to have a preference for investing in countries in which the working populations' civil and political rights are largely disregarded. This paper presents an empirical investigation of the popular political repression boosts FDI hypothesis and arrives...

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Multinationals, robots, and the labor share

Leone, Fabrizio - 2024

Using a panel of Spanish manufacturing firms covering the 1990-2017 period, I document new evidence about affiliates of multinational enterprises (MNEs): after being acquired, they exhibit a higher propensity to use robots, which leads to a reduction in their labor share. These effects are...

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How is global commerce affecting the gender composition of employment? : a firm-level analysis of the effects of exposure to gender norms via trade and FDI

Heckl, Pia; Lennon, Carolina; Schneebaum, Alyssa - 2025

Global firms have a higher share of female employees than domestic non-exporters. To explain this fact, this paper tests whether international trade and FDI are channels through which norms regarding gender (in)equality are transmitted from customers and investors to firms. We employ pooled...

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Is human capital losing from outsourcing? : Evidence for Austria and Poland

Lorentowicz, Andzelika (contributor); … - 2005

and Poland that with the new international division of labour emerging in Europe Austria, the high income country, is … specializing in the low skill intensive part of the value chain and Poland, the low income country, is specializing in the high … skill part. As a result, skilled workers in Austria are losing from outsourcing, while gaining in Poland. In Austria …

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Unlocking the value of cross-border mergers and acquisitions

Brakman, Steven; Garita, Gus; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2008

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