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Inequality And Group Participation: Theory And Evidence From Rural Tanzania
La Ferrara, Eliana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
inequality leads to more or less group participation. Using survey data from rural Tanzania we find that inequality at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667030
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Export Restrictions and Price Insulation During Commodity Price Booms
Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world price volatility. This study shows the nature of the...
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Asia’s Growth, the Changing Geography of World Trade, and Food Security: Projections to 2030
Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began with...
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Emerging Economies, Productivity Growth, and Trade with Resource-Rich Economies by 2030
Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Rapid economic growth in some emerging economies in recent decades has significantly increased their global economic importance. If this rapid growth continues and is strongest in resource-poor Asian economies, the growth in global demand for imports of primary products also will continue, to...
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The arrival of cheap goods: Measuring the impact of Chinese import competition on Nordic prices
Auer, Raphael; Fischer, Andreas M; Kropf, Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
What is the impact of Chinese import competition on Nordic producer prices? In a panel covering 23 (2 digit) NACE manufacturing sectors from 1995 to 2008, instrumental variable estimations predict that when Chinese imports capture a 1% increase in market share, Nordic producer prices decrease by...
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Tear Down this Wall: On the Persistence of Borders in Trade
Nitsch, Volker; Wolf, Nikolaus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
evolution of intra-German trade flows after reunification then provides new insights for both the globalization and border …
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Whence Policy? Government Policies, Finance, and Economic Integration
Bertola, Giuseppe; Lo Prete, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
choices and interpret them structurally as reactions, shaped by country-specific characteristics, to exogenous globalization …
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Globalization, De-Industrialization and Mexican Exceptionalism 1750-1879
Galvarriato, Aurora Gómez; Gonzales, Rafael Dobado; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
sources into those attributable to productivity events in the core and to globalization forces connecting core to periphery …
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Controversies about the Rise in American Inequality: A Survey
Dew-Becker, Ian; Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately: changes in labor’s share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes;...
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A New Look at Offshoring and Inequality: Specialization Versus Competition
Ekholm, Karolina; Ulltveit-Moe, Karen-Helene - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
fact been bell-shaped. We argue that this bell-shaped evolution of wage inequality can be linked to globalization and a … rise in offshoring. To analyze the relationship between globalization, offshoring and relative wages, we develop a general … equilibrium model of trade and offshoring. This reveals that globalization and offshoring have two opposing effects on relative …
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