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Trade and regional inequality
Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper examines the relationship between openness and within-country regional inequality across 28 countries over the period 1975-2005. In particular, it tests a) whether increases in trade lead to rising inequalities, b) whether these inequalities recede in time, and c) whether increases in...
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The Geography of Development within Countries
Desmet, Klaus; Henderson, J Vernon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This chapter describes how the spatial distribution of economic activity changes as economies develop and grow. We start with the relation between development and rural-urban migration. Moving beyond the coarse rural-urban distinction, we then focus on the continuum of locations in an economy...
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Centralized Bargaining, Multi-Tasking, and Work Incentives
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
The paper examines the implications of an important aspect of the ongoing reorganization of work – the move from occupational specialization towards multi-tasking – for centralized wage bargaining. The analysis shows how, on account of this reorganization, centralized bargaining becomes...
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Restructuring Production and Work
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
The paper analyses the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work and derives some salient implications for the labour market. The analysis focuses on the switch from occupational specialization at 'Tayloristic' organizations to multi-tasking at 'holistic' organizations....
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Infrastructure and Public Utilities Privatization in Developing Countries
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The paper analyses governments’ trade-off between fiscal benefits and consumer surplus in privatization reforms of … noncompetitive industries in developing countries. Under privatization, the control rights are transferred to private interests so … developing countries, tight budget constraints imply that privatization may be optimal for low profitability segments. For highly …
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Endogenous Distortions in Product and Labour Markets
Rama, Martin; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
This paper uses the common agency approach to analyse the joint determination of product and labour market distortions in a small (developing) open economy. Capital owners and union members lobby the government on both tariffs and minimum wages, while other factors of production are not...
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Trends and Cycles in Labour Productivity in the Major OECD Countries
Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Reichlin, Lucrezia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
business sector labour productivity in the major OECD countries. The method implies that the trend is the long-run forecast of …
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Information, Forecasts and Measurement of the Business Cycle
Evans, George W.; Reichlin, Lucrezia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
trend and cycle when the variable is integrated of order one (I (1)). This paper considers the multivariate generalization …
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Alliances in the Air: Some Worldwide Evidence
Gagnepain, Philippe; Uribe, Marín; Luis, Pedro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We consider an empirical model of worldwide airlines’ alliances that we apply to a large set of companies for the period 1995-2000, with special attention to US and EU carriers. From the estimation of a cost, capacity and demand system that accounts for cross-price elasticities, we attempt to...
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Commodity Prices, Financial Markets and World Income: A Structural Rational Expectations Model
Ramanujam, Prathap; Vines, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989
In this we specify and jointly estimate supply, demand and price equations for four aggregate commodity groups: food, beverages, agricultural raw materials and metals. This simple structural model allows us, for each group of commodities, to incorporate stock data for the first time, and to...
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