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The impact of labor market reforms on capital flows, wages and unemployment

Beissinger, Thomas - 2001

The paper contributes to the globalization debate by scrutinizing the international spillover effects which are provoked if a single country reduces the generosity of the unemployment compensation system or weakens labor union power. For this purpose a two-country model with imperfect...

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The Location Decision of the Multinational Firm : A Survey

Mudambi, Ram - 2014

In the international business literature location has traditionally been analyzed using Dunning's (1977) OLI framework, which focuses on the perspective of the multinational firm. However, another strand of literature has focused on the perspective of the host location. In this paper the current...

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The Location Decision of the Multinational Firm : A Survey

Mudambi, Ram - 2014

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Taxation and the multinational firm

Egger, Peter; Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2017

This chapter provides a survey of issues which emerge with the taxation of multinational enterprises. It addresses tax rates which affect multinational firms directly and focuses on provisions and incentives which relate to the profits and investments of such firms directly. It survey positive...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Wage Bargaining

Naylor, Robin; Santoni, Michele - 2000

We derive the sub-game perfect Nash equilibria for the foreign direct investment (FDI) game played between two unionised firms. Among other results, we show that FDI is less likely, ceteris paribus, the greater is union bargaining power, the stronger the weight the union attaches to wages, and...

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Demographic structure and the security of property rights in developing countries : an empirical exploration

Harms, Philipp; Meulen, Philipp an de - 2010

It is often argued that countries with a high population share of children and young workers should attract large capital inflows from aging industrialized economies. However, many of these countries deter foreign investors by a high risk of creeping or outright expropriation. In this paper we...

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Interest Group Politics in a Federation

Guriev, Sergei; Yakovlev, Evgeny; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - 2014

The optimal degree of decentralization depends on the importance of inter-state externalities of local policies. We show that inter-state externalities are determined by the spatial distribution of interest groups within the country. Interest groups who have multi-state scope internalize...

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Flexibility in wage setting under the threat of relocation

Goeddeke, Anna; Haucap, Justus; Herr, Annika; Wey, Christian - 2017

Relocation of production to countries with low labour cost have induced increased labour market flexibility, which has been praised as a silver bullet for economic growth and low unemployment. Within a unionised oligopoly framework, in which a multi-national firm has the option to relocate its...

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Chapter 2. The Political Economy of Commercial Policy

McLaren, J. - 2016

) electoral mechanisms, the (ii) lobbying institutions, and the (iii) legislative bargaining that affect its supply. A recent … the other. Areas ripe for more exploration include informational lobbying, the role of the media, firm-level analysis of … lobbying and more realistic approaches to labor markets. …

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Preference bias and outsourcing to market: a steady-state analysis

Wang, Ping; Riezman, Raymond - 2008

We analyze a model that focuses on the export/outsource decision. Outsourcing has the advantage of providing better information about local preferences. The disadvantage is that producing in the host country also means using the inferior technology embodied in the local capital. The decision of...

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