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The Impact of Emigration on Real Wages in Ireland 1850-1914

Boyer, George; Hatton, Timothy J.; O'Rourke, Kevin … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

World War on Irish real wages. We produce new estimates for several occupations which show that, contrary to some accounts …

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Social Policy Dimensions of Economic Integration: Environmental and Labour Standards

Anderson, Kym - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

Social policies are likely to have an ever-more prominent role in trade policy discussions in the years ahead for the new World Trade Organization (WTO). Many developing countries perceive the entwining of these social issues with trade policy as a threat to both their sovereignty and their...

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The Entwining of Trade Policy with Environmental and Labour Standards

Anderson, Kym - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

While environmental and labour issues are not new to the GATT, nor to other trade policy fora, they are likely to have a more prominent role in trade policy discussions in the years ahead for the newly formed World Trade Organization (WTO). Many developing countries perceive the entwining of...

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The Adoption of Labour Standards Conventions: Who, When and Why?

Chau, Nancy H; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

The ratification of ILO Labour Standards Conventions is a key explanatory variable in the empirical literature linking labour standards to economic performance. The assumption is that ratification gives information about labour standards implemented in a country. This Paper investigates the...

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Trade Liberalization and Globalization: A Survey

Hillman, Arye L. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper presents a survey of the literature on trade liberalization and globalization. The questions are why trade liberalization occurred, why trade liberalization took the form of reciprocity combined with multilateralism, why the liberalization allows for protectionist policies, and why...

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Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data

Brainerd, Elizabeth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic growth...

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Consumption of cotton cloth in India, 1795-1940

Roy, Tirthankar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Using data on the production and usage of cotton, the paper develops estimates for the production and consumption of cotton cloth in India during 1795-1940, and based on these numbers, revisits three issues central to interpretations of economic change in colonial India. These are: (a) trends in...

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Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?

Nekoei, Arash; Weber, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …

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Services offshoring and wages: Evidence from micro data

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual-level data combined with industry … real wages. Hence, offshoring has contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This …

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Self-employment of rural-to-urban migrants in China

Giulietti, Corrado; Ning, Guangjie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the potential gains from either type of employment; the...

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