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manifestation of their respective gross domestic products and the bilateral trade. …
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This paper analyzes the link between export destination, skill utilization and skill premium. We develop the mechanism behind these links: the difference in quality valuation of the product across exporting destinations and the distribution of level of skill among the skilled workers in the...
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South Korea has had a continuous engagement with significant trade, investment and security matters simultaneously in … strategies. Undoubtedly, the East Asian security framework has an overbearing impact on the trade and investment environment …
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This is a discussion of research findings on the interaction of the Japanese firms with Australia’s locational factors that affect their investment decisions in Australia. The paper argues that there is a convergence as well as divergence among the sixty-five companies from three industrial...
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employment and wage effects of trade reforms are generally small. The only exceptions are in the transitional econo¬mies, such as …This chapter reviews the available evidence on the linkages between trade reform, labor markets, and FDI. We begin by … drawing on studies of sixteen countries that underwent trade reforms in the 1980s and 1990s. These sixteen countries were …
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multilingual graduate supply, CEE is likely to utilise more value added and quality-driven services. Trade statistics support the … approximation to indentify those sections of service trade, which can be regarded as offshorable. The paper summarises the …
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This paper provides an analysis of Japanese hybrid factories in Australia in a context of labor relations aspect of the Japanese management and production system. The paper argues that the labor relations aspect of the Japanese system is the most successful transfer to Australia. In its second...
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Using a one-step stochastic frontier model for five developing countries (Brazil, Morocco, Pakistan, South Africa, and Vietnam), we show that foreign firms benefit from a better investment climate, which significantly explains why they are more efficient than local firms. Unlike former studies,...
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It is often claimed that what is popularly known as the "flying geese paradigm" of dynamic comparative advantage has accurately depicted the East Asian catching-up process. This paper presents a critical study of the paradigm, as well as its application to the current situation in East Asia...
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This study contributes to the understanding of the effects of FDI by illustrating that social networks affect technological learning in the Costa Rican ICT cluster in ways that the literature on technological capabilities failed to capture. It is based on extensive qualitative evidence collected...
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