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We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … free trade areas more likely to support full integration than states without free trade? Second, is trade liberalization … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our …
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Previous studies by Freund & Weinhold (2004) and others have highlighted the trade promoting effect of the Internet … resistance. We employ a gravity framework to assess the role of Internet adoption on trade within OECD countries over the period … 1990-2010. We find that when multilateral resistance is controlled for, the Internet has a less clear cut effect on trade …
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track all changes in the trade structure and competitiveness over time. The long-term trend of the indicators suggests that … the Austrian foreign trade sector was able to maintain its market share in the global environment. While the Austrian … foreign trade performance only slightly deviates from the pattern of the traditional industrialised countries, a strong …
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The Heckscher-Ohlin theory and the Ricardian theory of international commerce traditionally have been treated as separate conceptual frameworks, but a growing body of empirical work is relying on both simultaneously and calls for an integrated theory. This paper combines the Heckscher-Ohlin...
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A 2-country model with two groups of agents, workers and capitalists is presented in which economic integration results in an initial phase of catch-up, where the less industrialised country experiences the rise in both capital and labour income. Then, after a certain level of integration has...
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This study compares alternative measures of the potential and actual pollution content of China’s trade using an … were produced locally in China. A less positive, assessment of the environmental impact of China’s trade emerges, however …
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and skills) of the regions of China to affect China’s specialization and trade patterns. It does so using both the lens … condition to identify the violation of factor price equalization across regions, and direct evidence on regional trade and … sufficiently lumpy as recently as 2004 to affect it pattern of international trade. …
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This paper argues that international trade should affect local organization of production in a systematic way. By using …, entrepreneurship and outsourcing compared to the import-competing sector in a typical labor abundant country. Liberal trade regime will … between trade and productivity. This is the second elementary proposition. …
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This study examines the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in enabling Russia to grow and prosper economically. The study focuses on Russia's policy towards FDI, assessing how well it has worked through analysis of the data, and how it may be strengthened. The paper considers the roles and...
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This study analyses the effect of trade and migration on wages and labour market mobility. We estimate wage growth … in the reactions of white and blue-collar workers wages and mobility to trade and migration. In Austria exports have a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572013