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According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of "dirty" goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...
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Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU … with the EU was signed exceeded trade growth of the control group of countries which did not become members …
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Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is known about the effects of pacts on firm performance....
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This paper explores how the diversity of minimum wage systems affects earnings inequalities within European countries. It relies on the combination of (a) harmonized micro-data from household surveys, (b) data on national statutory minimum wages and coverage rates, and (c) hand-collected...
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This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from …
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investigates how the accession of 10 Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) to the European Union (EU) affected trade in …-2009, we find that EU accession mainly fostered Eastern entrants' integration in other CEECs' value chains. Smaller integration …
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Despite the EU emphasis on the 1995 Barcelona process, trade integration with the Mediterranean (MED) countries is … still underdeveloped. To contrast the success of EU integration with MED countries and that with the new EU members, we … compute the trade potential of these EU partners from 1995 to 2002 using an "out-of-sample" methodology. The coefficients are …
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those in Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg or Spain the worst, particularly among non-EU born migrants. Gender differences are … those in Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg or Spain the worst, particularly among non-EU born migrants. Gender differences are …
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