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The paper assesses the price and wage flexibility in Hong Kong SAR. At the aggregate level, it compares Hong Kong SAR … among inflation, unemployment, wage growth, and output fluctuations. At the industry level, the paper compares the …
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. The study investigates gender gaps in the labor market participation rate, employment conditions, and the use of time … employability, and enable them to secure employment. Overall, this study contributes to the debate on how better to manage the …
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This paper discusses the risks of stagnation over the medium term in the euro area. It examines the consequences of longer-term growth trends that predate the crisis and the progress made in addressing the crisis legacies of high unemployment and debt. The paper illustrates in a downside...
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Schemes of residual profit allocation (RPA) tax multinationals by allocating their 'routine' profits to countries in …
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Formula apportionment as a way to attribute taxable profits of multinationals across jurisdictions is receiving … gain most likely if employment receives a large weight in the formula; they also tend to benefit, on average, from a …
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a parsimonious, generalized specification to test the degree of global-supply-chain flexibility. Our estimates show that …
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The local sourcing of intermediate products is one the main channels for foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers. This paper investigates whether and how participation and positioning in the global value chains (GVCs) of host countries is associated to local sourcing by foreign investors....
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-in-difference approach. It finds that the territorial reform has increased the investment rate of UK multinationals by 15.7percentage points … increase in total outbound investment by UK multinationals …
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This paper addresses three types of geographical decoupling in foreign direct investment (FDI), i.e., challenges when using traditional FDI data as a proxy for real economic integration between economies: (i) large bilateral asymmetries between inward and outward FDI, (ii) the role of special...
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A growing empirical literature has documented significant profit shifting activities by multinationals. This paper … affected, because a permissive attitude toward profit shifting can be seen as a selective tax reduction for multinationals …
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