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This source of profit growth will disappear as interest rates rise, and some firms will need to reconsider business models – for example, private equity – that rely on cheap capital.
Having been encouraged by the government to experiment with Internet-based business models, Chinese firms are upending traditional practices.
Back then, the Democratic candidate, Senator John Kerry, upon hearing that digital x-rays had been outsourced from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for examination by radiologists in India, denounced firms that outsourced as Benedict Arnolds, the most infamous traitor in US history.
Until recently, only two foreign firms qualified.
Indian firms like Infosys and Wipro, giants in the information-technology sector, are now looking for cutting-edge services and high-grade talent as they compete for local markets such as the US.
And then, even if all firms are paying the same wage, the threat to fire a worker will be effective, because a worker who loses a job will face the risk of remaining unemployed.
Developing countries also continue to worry about bio-piracy--the patenting by Western firms of traditional foods and drugs.
Indeed, if the standards of domestic trade laws were applied internationally, perhaps a majority of firms within the US would be guilty of dumping.
Yet America's Supreme Court has set standards so high for American firms to be found guilty of predation that few cases are successfully prosecuted domestically.
Firms in the energy, infrastructure, banking, and armaments sectors have been nationalized.
Russia does possess some efficient, dynamic, large private companies, but the space for these firms is quickly receding.
Indeed, even firms in advanced industrial countries that have not received a subsidy are at an unfair advantage.
The High Cost of High FinanceLONDON – As the United Kingdom’s Brexit negotiations stumble on, other European countries are using the period of uncertainty about the future regulation of the continent’s financial markets to tempt firms and activities away from London to rival centers.
If productivity has fallen temporarily because everyone is hard at work at the twenty-first-century equivalent of reorganizing the factory floor, then the employment rate should be going up, not down, as firms continue to operate their old “steam-powered machinery” at the same time they are adding new “electrical capacity.”
And should these firms be allowed to access telecoms data to learn about customers’ habits and movements, thus giving them an unfair advantage?
Some firms have set their own operating standards.
The bulk of Mexican workers remain employed in “informal” firms – especially firms in which employees are not on salaried contracts – where productivity is a fraction of the level in large, modern firms that are integrated into the world economy.
Research by one of us (Levy) shows that informal firms have absorbed a growing share of the economy’s resources.
A considerable number of new firms are the main source of employment growth.
Evidence shows that many low-productivity firms survive, while high-productivity firms die.
Firms and workers in the formal sector must pay for health insurance, pensions, and other employee benefits.
By contrast, when firms and workers are informal, workers receive a similar bundle of health and pension benefits for free.
Another possibility, which can accompany the first one, is that Mexico’s rapid opening to imports has bifurcated its economy between a relatively small number of technologically advanced, globally competitive winners, and a growing segment of firms, particularly in services and retail trade, that serve as the residual source of employment.
In the absence of productive development policies of the type used in East Asia, modern firms may have not been able to expand rapidly enough.
In fact, returns to education have been falling partly because the supply of skilled workers has outpaced demand, as most informal firms do not require them.
In the end, the effects of efficiency-minded reforms have been offset by factors – social insurance policies and market imperfections – that systematically channel too many resources to informal firms and create obstacles to formal firms.
The second lesson is that countries need to pay close attention to how social insurance policies affect the behavior of firms and workers.
Does he want to extract concessions from the EU in all industrial sectors in which US firms are lagging?
Trump has already shown his willingness to target firms’ foreign operations with the threat of import levies, public accusations of price gouging, and immigration restrictions (which make it harder to attract talent).
The strategy may work over the short term in winning export orders for British firms from India.
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