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Global-local linkages, Spillovers and Cultural Clusters: Theoretical and Empirical insights from an exploratory study of Toronto’s Film Cluster

Vang, Jan; Chaminade, Cristina - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2007

This paper illustrates the importance of global-local linkages in cultural cluster studies by discussing the impact of Hollywood’s runway productions on the indigenous film cluster in Toronto, Canada. While global-local linkages are at the forefront of the current debate in cluster studies,...

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Concluding Chapter: Globalisation and Innovation Policy

Hommen, Leif; Edquist, Charles - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2008

some extent on issues related to globalization, but devotes most of its attention to innovation policy. The chapter is …

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Workers' Views of the Impact of Trade on Jobs

Brown, Clair; Lane, Julia; Sturgeon, Timothy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Although public policy is influenced by the perception that workers worry about the impact of trade on their jobs, there is little empirical evidence on what shapes such views. This paper uses new data to examine how workers’ perceptions of the impact of trade are related to their career...

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Gouvernance mondiale, bonne gouvernance et impacts sur les économies en développement (global governance, good governance and the issue of development)

YACOUB, Lamia; OTANDO, Gwenaëlle; UZUNIDIS, Dimitri - Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et … - 2010

stakes of globalization incite us to take lessons from this and to seize all the “cruciality” of a new development model. In …

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The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor

Hanson, Gordon H. - In: Annual Review of Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 179-208

In this paper, I selectively discuss recent empirical work on the consequences of global labor mobility. I examine how international migration affects the incomes of individuals in sending and receiving countries and of migrants themselves. Were a social planner to choose the migration policies...

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Technological Change and the Wealth of Nations

Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - In: Annual Review of Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 93-120

-country misallocations across sectors due to policy distortions. We also discuss the effects of two aspects of globalization, trade in goods … illustrate some of the equalizing and unequalizing forces of globalization. …

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Kapitalmarktinformationen: Ihre dienende Rolle fuer eine nachhaltige Entwicklung. Eine Analyse der Aufgaben des Finanzmarktes in ethischer Perspektive (Information about the Money Market: Their Serving Role for Sustainable De-velopment – An Analysis of the Tasks of the Financial Market from the Ethic Point of View)

Huebner, Joerg - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik - … 11 (2010) 2, pp. 160-173

can contribute to the globalization of the human rights.) …

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Globalization and the effects of changes in functional income distribution on aggregate demand in Germany

Stockhammer, Engelbert; Hein, Eckhard; Grafl, Lucas - In: International Review of Applied Economics 25 (2011) 1, pp. 1-23

Vogel (2008, 2009). The main contribution lies in a careful analysis of the effects of globalization. Since Germany is a …

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Women Workers in the Maquiladoras and the Debate on Global Labor Standards

Dominguez, Edme; Icaza, Rosalba; Quintero, Cirila; … - In: Feminist Economics 16 (2010) 4, pp. 185-209

This paper represents a collective contribution to an ongoing debate on the benefits and disadvantages of export … extensive research on women in Mexico's and Central America's maquiladoras (assembly plants that produce export goods), this … paper aims to problematize the viewpoints that present export-based, industrial jobs as dignified alternatives for women in …

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Globalization: Countries, Cities and Multinationals

McCann, Philip; Acs, Zoltan - In: Regional Studies 45 (2011) 1, pp. 17-32

McCann P. and Acs Z. J. Globalization: countries, cities and multinationals, Regional Studies. This paper explores the … globalization. In order to do this, it integrates three different literatures, namely the literature on the optimal size of a … relationship between city size and the prosperity of the nation-state, has changed over the different eras of globalization. In …

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