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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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This paper summarises the key findings of a recent study on the impact of Eastern Enlargement of the European Union (EU … affect labour markets in the EU, namely i) trade, ii) foreign direct investment, and iii) migration. A main conclusion of the … the long-run stock of immigrants from the CEECs-10 in the EU will increase from 0.85 in 1998 to a peak of 3.9 million …
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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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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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occurred in the case of the Eastern Enlargement of the EU and has involved significant diversion of migration from more … migration, namely i) restricting access to welfare and ii) adopting an EU-wide migration policy. -- migration ; enlargement …
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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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