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Japan's Foreign Direct Investment Experiences in India: Lessons Learnt from Firm Level Surveys

Choudhury, Srabani Roy - 2009

Ever since India decided to globalize, concentrated effort was made to attract Japanese participation through foreign … direct investment. However, response from Japan has been rather subdued. This paper attempts to gain some insight into this … reluctance of Japanese investors by studying the experiences of eight firms which are either subsidiaries or joint ventures of …

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The Costs of Price Stability - Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Europe

Holden, Steinar - 2002

In most European countries, the prevailing terms of employment, including the nominal wage, can only be changed by mutual consent. If inflation is so low that nominal wages have to be cut, the workers have strategic advantage in the wage negotiations, which induces higher unemployment in...

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Did PLAs on LA affordable housing projects raise construction costs?

Philips, Peter; Littlehale, Scott - 2015

The cost of building nine affordable housing projects in Los Angeles under the terms of a project labor agreement between the years 2008 and 2012 are compared to 121 affordable housing projects developed and built in the same time period and same area without project labor agreement...

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Creating Jobs in India's Organised Manufacturing Sector

Kapoor, Radhicka - 2014

Despite witnessing a decade of rapid economic growth, an acceleration of growth in the organised manufacturing sector has eluded India. Using data from the An nual Survey of Industries, we examine the factors holding back the growth of output and employment in this sector. We find that there are...

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Investment climate and total factor productivity in manufacturing: Analysis of Indian states

Veeramani, C.; Goldar, Bishwanath - 2004

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Financialisation and work: New transdisciplinary insights from micro-level survey data

Betzelt, Sigrid; Santos, Ana C.; Lopes, Cláudia A. - 2016

The paper examines the interdependencies of financialisation and working conditions by exploring the comparative findings of a micro-level survey on household income, household debt, and working conditions which was conducted in five European countries representing different institutional and...

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South Africa's response to the Covid-19 pandemic: The crisis in the context of the history of South African capitalism

Scully, Ben - 2023

This paper is part of a comparative project on the Varieties of Covid-19 Reactions and Changing Modes of Globalization …/textiles-across four countries in order to analyze the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the structure of globalization. However, one of … global imbalances of power which define neoliberal globalization. …

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Inequality and Growth: The Role of Beliefs and Culture

Strieborny, Martin - 2013

Governments perpetually align their policies to satisfy shifts in voters' relative demand for economic growth versus social equality. Following such shifts, increases (decreases) in government interventions lower (raise) both inequality and growth. This mechanism generates a positive co-movement...

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Bowling for fascism: Social capital and the rise of the Nazi Party

Satyanath, Shanker; Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2014

Social capital is often associated with desirable political and economic outcomes. This paper contributes to a growing literature on its "dark side". We examine the role of social capital in the downfall of democracy in interwar Germany. We analyze Nazi Party entry in a cross-section of cities,...

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Integration with the global economy. The case of Turkish automobile and consumer electronics industries

Taymaz, Erol; Yilmaz, Kamil - 2008

This paper aims to contribute to the extensive study of the World Bank Commission on Growth and Development by a case study of the Turkish automotive and the consumer electronics industries. Despite a macroeconomic environment that inhibits investment and growth, both industries have achieved...

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