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Asian Economic Papers
Navigating the New Normal: The European Union's Changing Stance on Globalization in the Era of Trade Conflicts
EU har blivit mer inåtvänt. Detta beror i huvudsak på förändringar i omvärlden, där ekonomisk politik i såväl Kina som USA haft stor påverkan på den europeiska utvecklingen. Den nya europeiska hållnin…
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Canadian Journal of Economics
Globalization, Recruitments, and Job Mobility
Denna studie undersöker sambandet mellan företags exportintensitet och vilka rekryteringsstrategier som företagen använder sig av. Vi finner att exportintensiva företag i högre utsträckning anställer…
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Asian Economic Papers
The Belt and Road Initiative: Economic Causes and Effects
Kina lanserade 2013 det s.k. Sidenvägsinitiativet (Belt and Road Initiative, BRI). Vi finner att syftet med BRI främst är att komma till rätta med inhemska kinesiska obalanser. BRI har vidare lett til…
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World Economy
International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
Internationell handel kräver kunskap om utländska preferenser, distributionssystem, lagar och regler. Företag kan tillgodogöra sig denna kunskap genom att anställa personer som invandrat från dessa lä…
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European Economic Review
Globalization, the Jobs Ladder and Economic Mobility
Vi utvecklar en teoretisk modell där företag skiljer sig åt avseende anställdas produktivitet och färdigheter och undersöker hur globalisering påverkar lönefördelningen och karriärvägar för arbetstaga…
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Travail et emploi
Globalization, Job Tasks and the Demand for Different Occupations
I denna studie undersöker vi hur globalisering påverkar olika arbetsmarknadsutfall. Vår analys visar att ökad internationalisering påverkar vilka typer av anställda som efterfrågas i olika företag. Vi…
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Research in Economics
Firm Size Distribution and Employment Fluctuations: Theory and Evidence
Efterfrågeförändringar har mycket olika påverkan på sysselsättning i olika länder. Detta gäller såväl i hög- som i lågkonjunktur. Vi finner att denna skillnad till viss del förklaras av skillnader i f…
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European Economic Review
Global Engagement and the Occupational Structure of Firms
I denna studie undersöks sambandet mellan graden av företags internationalisering och förekomsten av olika yrken. Forskarna finner att internationellt verksamma företag har anställda som i högre grad…
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Review of International Economics
Global Engagement, Complex Tasks and the Distribution of Occupational Employment
We construct a task-based model of the firm’s choice of occupational inputs to examine how that choice varies with greater global engagement. We assume that more complex tasks are more costly to comple…
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Journal of International Economics
Globalization and Imperfect Labor Market Sorting
This paper focuses on the ability of the labor market to efficiently match heterogeneous workers to jobs within a given industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched wor…
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European Economic Review
Multinational Firms, Acquisitions and Job Tasks
We revisit the question how inward FDI and multinational ownership affect relative labor demand. Motivated by the recent literature that distinguish between skills and tasks, we argue that the impact…
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Asian Development Review
Foreign Firms and Indigenous Technology Development in the People’s Republic of China
The People's Republic of China (PRC) is currently promoting indigenous technology development through support of Chinese firms and, arguably, by restricting operations of foreign multinational firms.…
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Journal of Development Studies
Foreign Ownership and Employment Growth in a Developing Country
Many developing countries would like to increase employment in the formal sectors. One way to accomplish this goal may be to encourage the entrance of foreign firms. We examine employment growth in In…
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Asian Economic Papers
Improving the Lot of the Farmer: Development Challenges in Timor–Leste during the Second Decade of Independence
Large segments of the rural Timorese population survive on subsistence farming characterized by simple production methods and low output. Broad-based improvements in Timorese living standards require…
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American Economic Review
Liberalized Trade and Worker–Firm Matching
Recent theoretical analysis suggests that a reduction in the cost of exporting increases the degree of assortative matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce…
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Canadian Journal of Economics
Multinationals, Cross–Border Acquisitions and Wage Dispersion
We examine the impact of cross-border acquisitions on intra-firm wage dispersion using a detailed Swedish linked employer-employee data set including data on all firms and about 50% of the Swedish lab…
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Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies
Foreign Direct Investment and Growth in East Asia: Lessons for Indonesia
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been important in the growth and global integration of developing economies. Both Northeast and Southeast Asia, especially the latter, have been part of this develo…
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Asian Development Review
South–South FDI and Development in East Asia
This paper attempts to measure the size of South–South foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing East Asia and the trends in it, the characteristics of the investing countries, and the investments…
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World Economy
The Role of Small Firms in the Technology Development of China
Science & Technology (S&T) is high on the Chinese policy agenda and the country aims at becoming an innovation-driven economy. Small firms have been important in technology development in othe…
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Asian Economic Papers
Will Science and Technology Solve China’s Unemployment Problem?
China needs a substantial growth of modern-sector employment to absorb its huge supply of underemployed people and new labor market entrants. The present crisis with its massive layoffs of workers mak…
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Review of World Economics
Multinationals, Skills, and Wage Elasticities
The increase in foreign direct investments raises concerns about labor market consequences in many countries. It is feared that multinational firms are inclined to shift jobs abroad and increase job vo…
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Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy
Population Growth and Job Creation in Timor–Leste
Timor-Leste began its independence as one of the poorest nations in the world. Substantial progress has been made thereafter but the challenges for future development are numerous. High population gro…
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World Economy
Foreign Firms and Chinese Employment
This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on employment in the Chinese manufacturing sector. As one of the world's largest recipients of FDI, China has arguably benefited from…
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Developing Economies
Foreign Networks and Exports: Results from Indonesian Panel Data
Most firms and plants in developing countries produce only for the domestic market and few are able to export. One plausible hypothesis is that foreign networks decrease export costs and that plants w…
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Asian Economic Papers
Poverty in Rural Cambodia: The Differentiated Impact of Linkages, Inputs and Access to Land
Cambodia has been growing rapidly over the past few years, but remains one of the poorest countries in East Asia. This paper analyzes rural poverty in Cambodia to identify the factors that explain its…
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Pacific Review
The Oil Resources of Timor–Leste: Curse or Blessing?
Timor-Leste is among the youngest nations in the world. It began its independence under difficult circumstances: poverty is widespread, education is poor, the industrial sector is non-existent, and pol…
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Journal of International Economics
Is there Really a Foreign Ownership Wage Premium? Evidence from Matched Employer–Employee Data
Numerous studies on firm-level data have reported higher average wages in foreign-owned firms than in domestically owned firms. This, however, does not necessarily imply that the individual worker's w…
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Europe-Asia Studies
Who Do You Trust? Ethnicity and Trust in Bosnia and Herzegovina
This article examines the question of trust in Bosnia and Herzegovina with a special focus on the role of ethnicity. We find generalised trust to be low and declining in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Moreove…
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Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv
National and International Spillovers from R&D: Comparing a Neoclassical and an Endogenous Growth Approach
National and International Spillovers from R&D: Comparing a Neoclassical and an Endogenous Growth Approach.— Two models where productivity growth is caused by spillovers from R&D are analyzed…
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