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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"skill intensity"”.
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Factor proportions and product cycle: a study of export patterns in manufactured products
… differences in relative abundance of labor skills and on inter-country differences in ability to develop new products. Extensive theoretical and empirical literature shows that the traditional trade theory alone fails to provide a satisfactory explanation of modern industrial trade patterns. …
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Essays on the Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions
… on labor productivity, employment, and skill-intensity? The results allow drawing some conclusions about the reasons why plants merge. The thesis consists of four chapters. All contributions have in common that they focus on questions about the effects of M&A on plant performance. That …
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Essays on international trade and investment
… of international trade with a focus on workers' skill acquisition. I develop an open-economy model in which workers undertake non-contractible activities to acquire firm-specific skills on the job. I show that protective labor laws, by increasing workers' bargaining power, induce workers to …
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Essays on global value chains
… Chains (GVCs) as well as the relative demand for skilled labour. This thesis centres around the question how the former influences the latter. It firstly describes the large theoretical and empirical ambiguity that exists in the literature before proposing a novel graphical exposition of the …
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Essays on Firm Behavior in Developing Economies
… processes. I also find that firm output, machine intensity and labor productivity decline with an increase in electricity price. In addition to these level effects, I show that firm output and productivity growth rates are negatively affected by high electricity prices. These results suggest that …
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Foreign direct investment and economic growth in Africa
… of firms, considering how physical capital intensity of foreign affiliates and skill intensity of the local workforce affect such decisions. The results reveal remarkably consistent finding that there is a higher likelihood that these firms will integrate production through capital-intensive …