Publications

The KCG has various series of publications to provide research findings and policy implications to different interested groups, e.g., students, academics, policy makers and the public.

Interfaces of occupational health management and corporate social responsibility: a multi-centre qualitative study from Germany

18th November 2021
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Authors: Ludger Heidbrink, Eva Kuhn, Sebastian Müller, Christoph Teusch, Grit Tanner, Marlies Schümann, Carolin Baur, Eva Bamberg, Stuart McLennan, Alena Buyx (BMC Public Health, 2021, 21:1042)

The workplace has been identified as a priority setting for health promotion. There are potential advantages of systematically integrating Occupational Health Management (OHM) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). However, OHM and CSR are usually overseen by different management branches with different sets of values, and there is a lack of empirical research regarding interfaces between OHM and CSR. Germany offers a particularly useful setting due to legislation requiring health to be promoted in the workplace. This study aims to examine key stakeholders’ views and experiences regarding interfaces between OHM and CSR in German companies.

Feindliche Übernahme? Chinas Auslandsinvestitionen unter der Lupe

18th November 2021
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Authors: Gabriel Felbermayr, Moritz Goldbeck, Alexander-Nikolai Sandkamp (ifo Schnelldienst, 2019, 72 (8): 27–39)

China ist mittlerweile ein wichtiger internationaler Investor. Die ausländischen Direkt- investitionen (ADI) Chinas sind von 2005 bis 2017 von 10 auf ca. 177 Mrd. US-Dollar gestiegen und haben somit stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Rund 40% der chinesischen ADI wurden im Jahr 2018 in Europa getätigt[...]

Servitization, Inequality, and Wages

18th November 2021
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Authors: Dominik Boddin, Thilo Kroeger (Labour Economics, forthcoming, 102011)

This paper studies the effect of servitization, i.e., within-establishment changes in the labor force composition towards higher shares of workers with service occupations, on within-establishment wage inequality. We identify servitization as being a main driver of increasing within-establishment wage inequality. Servitization accounts for roughly 7% of the observed increase in the within-establishment wage inequality in manufacturing industries between 1994 and 2017[...]

Can the G20 Serve as a Launchpad for a Multilateral Investment Agreement?

18th November 2021
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Authors: Axel Berger, Wan-Hsin Liu (The World Economy, 2021, Vol. 44(8), 2284-2302)

The international system for the governance of foreign investments is highly fragmented consisting mainly of bilateral agreements. With the adoption of nine guiding principles for global investment policy-making in 2016, some observers argue that the G20 can actually serve as a launchpad for negotiations of a multilateral investment agreement[...]

Aoife Hanley discusses Chances and Challenges of China’s Energy Transition for German SMEs

8th November 2021
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According to the Paris Agreement negotiated at the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP21, in 2015 and signed afterwards, the countries involved are expected to give updated national pledges every five years to enhance their nationally determined contributions to help limit the greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change. First such official updates are thus expected at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, that is currently held in Glasgow in United Kingdom[...]

KCG Working Paper No. 24: Exports and New Products in China – A Generalized Propensity Score Approach with Firm-to-Firm Spillovers

14th June 2021
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Autthors: Yundan Gong and Aoife Hanley

Underpinning China’s technological advancement are the twin-engines of exports and innovation. To better understand China’s meteoric economic transformation, we explore the extent to which new products are triggered by exports (direct effects) and by exposure to other exporters (indirect effects)[...]

Productivity Effects of Processing and Ordinary Export Market Entry: A Time-varying Treatments Approach

14th April 2021
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Authors: Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg (Review of International Economics, forthcoming)
China’s policy of encouraging export processing has been the topic of much discussion in the academic literature and policy debate. We use a recently developed econometric approach that allows for time varying “treatments” and estimate economically and statistically significant positive causal effects of entering into export processing and ordinary export markets on subsequent firm level productivity[..]