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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research : With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas - 2008
outsourcing activities, the increased flow of direct foreign investment and its heterogeneous regional distribution, the increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773083
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Public family firms and economic inequality across societies
Block, Jörn; Hirschmann, Mirko; Kranz, Tobias; … - 2022 - First draft: 8 April 2022
Research and public interest on economic inequality have grown over the last years. Family firms and the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few wealthy business families have been discussed as both a cause and a consequence of economic inequality. Yet, so far, we lack knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172971
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Offshoring and Wage Inequality : Theory and Evidence from China
Sheng, Liugang - 2017
We present a global production sharing model that integrates the organizational choices of offshoring into the … determination of relative wages in developing countries. The model shows that offshoring through foreign direct investment … contributes more prominently than arm's length outsourcing to the demand for skill in the South, thereby increasing the relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948658
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Offshoring and Wage Inequality : Theory and Evidence from China
Sheng, Liugang - 2017
We present a global production sharing model that integrates the organizational choices of offshoring into the … determination of relative wages in developing countries. The model shows that offshoring through foreign direct investment … contributes more prominently than arm's length outsourcing to the demand for skill in the South, thereby increasing the relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951282
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The COVID-19 pandemic and firms' e-learning use : implications for inequality in training opportunities
Müller, Christoph - In: Journal for labour market research 58 (2024) 1, pp. 1-15
This paper investigates whether the adoption of E-learning by firms contributed to offset the decrease in firm-sponsored training during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a novel firm level survey linked with administrative data on the universe of workers within those firms, I study the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015175371
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Globalization and Inequality in Advanced Economies : Trade, Tax Base Mobility, and Policy Implications
Hellier, Joël - 2023
offshoring, (ii) the impact of tax base mobility on tax competition and (iii) the globalization-driven constraints on social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014302675
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The city-level effects of offshoring
Burnett, Perry; Cutler, Harvey Stephen - In: Modern economy 5 (2014) 10, pp. 1022-1029
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011285640
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Exports, Unemployment and the Welfare State
Janeba, Eckhard - 2021
The paper analyzes the labor market effects of globalization when foreign market entry is costly and risky. With flexible labor markets, a fall in foreign market entry cost tends to generate more income inequality. By contrast, when workers cannot easily switch industries and wages are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317073
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Public Family Firms and Economic Inequality Across Societies
Block, Jörn; Hirschmann, Mirko; Kranz, Tobias; … - 2022
Research and public interest on economic inequality have grown over the last years. Family firms and the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few wealthy business families have been discussed as both a cause and a consequence of economic inequality. Yet, so far, we lack knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292086
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Wealth and politics : studies on inter vivos transfers and partisan effects
Schinke, Christoph - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742787