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The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid … emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower …-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade …
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A sustained export price boom may not benefit workers if the resulting rents lead employers to invest in coercive activities that reduce wages. We formalize this idea in a simple model of an agricultural economy with exogenous export price fluctuations and plantation owners who mobilize the...
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trade contributes to economic growth, this could, in turn, impede economic development. Despite extensive literature on the … migration-trade nexus, there are few examples of policymakers highlighting the role of migration for internationalization. One …
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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 extends the global sourcing model with informal labor, which spawns reputation and legal costs for violating the rules and regulations imposed on foreign firms regarding accessing informal labor under integration. Under these circumstances, foreign firms, facing a higher cost than...
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international trade, and discusses their policy implications. The first major finding is that labour taxes do not seem to affect … imports, while their effect on exports is likely to depend on how much domestic labour contributes to total value added. If … have a major impact on exports. This is an important finding, because it challenges the established view in the literature …
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, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between …-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained chapters which deal with the following topics in empirical international trade and … countries to additionally include informal employment (chapter 3) as well as the relation between foreign direct investment …
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, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between …-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained chapters which deal with the following topics in empirical international trade and … countries to additionally include informal employment (chapter 3) as well as the relation between foreign direct investment …
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Global delivery models (GDMs) are transforming the global IT and business process outsourcing industry. GDMs are a new form of client-specific investment promoting services integration with clients by combining client proximity with time-zone spread for 24/7 service operations. We investigate...
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Prior literature is ambivalent about whether organizational complexity has positive or negative effects on firm performance. Using rich data on global service providers, we explore this ambivalence by disentangling performance consequences of different types of organizational complexity. We show...
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