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This paper focuses on the decomposition of observed increases in UK wage inequality since 1979 into the component factors of competition from low-wage imports and technological change. Building on recent work by Abrego and Whalley, it argues that the length of production run and degree of .xity...
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We show that the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy trade significantly more with one another in the … aftermath of the collapse of the Iron Curtain than predicted by a standard gravity model. This trade surplus declines linearly …
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on the volume of intermediate goods trade and the number of varieties produced are mutually reinforcing, resulting in a …
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We show that the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy trade significantly more with one another in the … aftermath of the collapse of the Iron Curtain than predicted by a standard gravity model. This trade surplus declines linearly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019337
on the volume of intermediate goods trade and the number of varieties produced are mutually reinforcing, resulting in a …
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This note explores the value of search capital in interfirm matches in the outsourcing trade, by extending Rauch and … search imposes a similar order of magnitude trade barrier to most tariffs, and would be expected to affect both the intensive … and extensive margins of trade. …
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. The trade-off between these two factors is assumed to determine the dynamics of foreign direct investment in this kind of …
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We examine the R&D and export decisions of two ex ante symmetric firms in symmetric countries, with both unit trade … costs and fixed entry costs to the export market. When both trade costs are low, there will be a symmetric, cross …-hauling duopoly, but if fixed costs are fairly high, unit trade costs are low and R&D is relatively cheap, there will be an asymmetric …
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We show that the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy trade significantly more with one another in the … aftermath of the collapse of the Iron Curtain than predicted by a standard gravity model. This trade surplus declines linearly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439170