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On the Organizational Structure of Multinational Firms : Which Sourcing Mode for Which Input?
Südekum, Jens - 2012
Recent studies indicate that firms often outsource standard and simple tasks, while keeping complex and important inputs inside their boundaries. This observation is difficult to reconcile with the property rights approach of the firm, which suggests that important components should be...
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Research Funding and Regional Economies
Goldschlag, Nathan - 2016
Public support of research typically relies on the notion that universities are engines of economic development, and that university research is a primary driver of high wage localized economic activity. Yet the evidence supporting that notion is based on aggregate descriptive data, rather than...
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Manufacturing Employment and Women's Agency : Evidence from Lesotho 2004-2014
Grogan, Louise Anne - 2022
This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment on women's health and decision-making power within …
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Trade and Manufacturing Jobs in Germany
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2017
The German economy exhibits rising service and declining manufacturing employment. But this decline is much sharper in …. They are not driven by manufacturing workers who smoothly switch to services. The observed shifts are entirely due to young … manufacturing decline in Germany. It even retained those jobs in the economy …
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Product Market Competition and Employer Provided Training in Germany
Heywood, John S. - 2017
manufacturing where we confirm earlier results of no relationship …
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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …
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Institutions and Development in MENA Region : Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector
Arayssi, Mahmoud - 2015
This paper examines the role of institutions (including civil law origin), financial deepening and degree of regime authority on growth rates in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using panel data through a fixed effect model. The results reveal that English civil law origin and the...
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Foreign Competition and Executive Compensation in the Manufacturing Industry : A Comparison between Germany and the U.S
Dyballa, Katharina - 2018
) whether the impact of import penetration is driven by implied efficiency effects. We use data from the manufacturing industry …
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Flexible Work Organization and Employer Provided Training : Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Campaner, Annika - 2018
We examine the hypothesis that flexible work organization involves greater skill requirements and, hence, an increased likelihood of receiving employer provided training. Using unique linked employer-employee data from Germany, we confirm that employees are more likely to receive training when...
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Performance Pay and Enterprise Productivity : The Details Matter
Kato, Takao - 2018
Much of the empirical literature on PRP (Performance Related Pay) focuses on a question of whether the firm can increase firm performance in general and enterprise productivity in particular by introducing PRP and if so, how much. However, not all PRP programs are created equal and PRP programs...
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