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Do Employers Discriminate Less if Vacancies are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - CESifo - 2013

We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...

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Geography, Institutions, and the Making of Comparative Development

Auer, Raphael A. - CESifo - 2012

While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...

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Trade Tariffs and Self-Enforcing Environmental Agreements

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2013

international trade, self-enforcing - or stable - IEAs may comprise up to 60% of all countries (Eichner and Pethig 2013). But these … coalitions are Stackelberg leaders and set tariffs in addition to their cap-and-trade schemes. Surprisingly, these smaller IEAs …

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Trade, Integration, and Interregional Inequality

Hirte, Georg; Lessmann, Christian - CESifo - 2014

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within … on weighted trade shares and trade costs. In addition to the standard trade-to-GDP ratio, we derive and propose an … aggregate freeness-of-trade measure based on phiness of trade. Both measures are instrumented by proxies constructed from …

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Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-level Evidence from Germany

Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - CESifo - 2014

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms’ exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...

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Regional Implications of Financial Market Development: Credit Rationing, Trade, and Location

Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; Seidel, Tobias - CESifo - 2013

We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard … trade liberalization. While the former leads to more dispersion of economic activity across space, the latter tends to drive …

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Market Integration, Wage Concentration, and the Cost and Volume of Traded Machines

Edwards, T. Huw; Perroni, Carlo - CESifo - 2014

on the volume of intermediate goods trade and the number of varieties produced are mutually reinforcing, resulting in a …

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Regional Inequality, Convergence, and its Determinants - A View from Outer Space

Lessmann, Christian; Seidel, André - CESifo - 2015

regional inequality. Geography, mobility and trade openness are also highly important. …

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The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Business Cycles in Asian Emerging Economies

Fidrmuc, Jarko; Korhonen, Iikka - CESifo - 2009

negative, but they are also influenced most by the global financial crisis. Finally, we find a significant link between trade …

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Internationally Coordinated Emission Permit Policies: An Option for Withdrawers from the Kyoto Protocol?

Bednar-Friedl, Birgit; Farmer, Karl - CESifo - 2009

This paper investigates the welfare costs of unilateral versus internationally coordinated emission permit policies in a two-country overlapping generations model with producer carbon emissions. We show that, for a net foreign debtor country, the domestic welfare costs of a unilateral domestic...

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