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Effects of foreign investment in the presence of unemployment

Journal of International Economics, 1981
Abstract In this paper we present a simple model of unemployment in the presence of foreign investment in the traded sector. More foreign investment increases employment in the nontraded sector but may or may not increase employment in the traded sector. The effect on total employment is also ambiguous.
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Franchising in Brazil: foreign entrants build a presence

Journal of Business Strategy, 2020
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the franchising sector in Brazil and highlight the opportunities and offer strategies for practitioners. It also points out some challenges and gives suggestions to overcome them and thrive in the Brazilian market through the franchising system.
Vanessa Pilla Galetti Bretas, Ilan Alon
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Financial Crises and the Presence of Foreign Banks [PDF]

, 2005
INTRODUCTION Foreign banks have entered many transition and emerging economies in recent years, sometimes before economic and banking crises have developed, and often after. Today, in a number of countries foreign banks own as much as 90 percent or more of the banking systems' assets.
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Adhesion of red cells to foreign surfaces in the presence of flow

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, 1974
AbstractA controlled surface shear stress produced by laminar flow in a rotating disk or parallel plate flow system has been used to study red cell adhesion to glass, siliconized glass, polythylene and Teflon. The results indicate that the shear stress at the surface must exceed a minimum critical value before cells will detach, and that this minimum ...
N, Mohandas, R M, Hochmuth, E E, Spaeth
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International migration versus foreign investment in the presence of unemployment

Journal of International Economics, 1987
"This paper extends the standard (two-factor, one-good) model of international factor movements, to include unemployment due to a minimum-income guarantee within the capital-abundant country. From this country's perspective, we establish important departures from previous (full-employment) results.
R A, Brecher, E U, Choudhri
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Determinants of Privatization in China: The Role of the Presence of Foreign Firms

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
Abstract This study investigates how the presence of foreign firms in a sector influences the privatization policy of domestic firms in that sector in China. We consider several variables to proxy for such a presence, from the perspective of the relative production scale, R&D and marketing, and labor productivity.
Yi Liu, Xue Li, Sajal Lahiri
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Foreign Capital, Welfare and Urban Unemployment in the Presence of Agricultural Dualism [PDF]

Japan and the World Economy, 2005
In a two sector mobile capital Harris-Todaro model, such as Corden and Findlay (1975), an inflow of foreign capital in the presence of protectionist policy is welfare deteriorating as well as unemployment accentuating. But, the developing countries have chosen liberalized investment and trade policies as their development strategies and have been able ...
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Presence of a Foreign Substance in Anesthesia Machines

Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2003
Kazuhida, Uchida, Takeshi, Tateda, Hirofumi, Hino, Osamu, Ookawa   +3 more
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Foreign Investment Decisions in the Presence of Real Options.

Journal of the American Taxation Association, 1996
Abstract This paper extends the literature on the effect of taxes on foreign investments in two ways. First, it shows that the effect of tax depreciation on investment decisions depends jointly on whether the home country uses a territorial or worldwide tax system, and whether the investment is financed from accumulated foreign ...
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On the presence of risk premiums in foreign exchange markets

Journal of International Economics, 1984
Abstract This paper provides evidence that for most currencies the exchange risk premium as identified in Grauer, Litzenberger and Stehle (1976) is highly volatile, random and on average equal to zero. Further investigation suggests that this volatility can be traced to the fact that our index of world market performance does not adequately ...
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