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Trade Liberalization and Employment in the Moroccan Manufacturing Sector

ACHY, Lahcen; SEKKAT, Khalid - EconWPA - 2005

This paper uses firm level data to investigate the impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing sector employment in Morocco. This paper extends the existing research in various dimensions. First, it analyses the effect of trade openness on different skill levels of the manufacturing labor...

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TRENDS AND FLUCTUATIONS IN BRAZILIAN AND ARGENTINE TRADE FLOWS

Barbosa-Filho, Nelson H. - EconWPA - 2005

are that: (i) even though the fluctuations of the export and import prices of the two countries are highly correlated …, their terms of trade are not because the export price of one country is also highly correlated with the import price of the … one of the sources of their desynchronized export fluctuations. …

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Argentina

Nogues, Julio J. - EconWPA - 2005

After decades of being a marginal player in the GATT trade negotiations, Argentina decided to participate actively in the Uruguay Round. This chapter measures the imbalance between the concessions given and received and concludes that the value of the first are far more important than the...

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Argentina: Trying to Make Sense of the Financial Tango

Buchs, Thierry - EconWPA - 2005

The paper discusses and revisits some of the most popular stories behind the 2001 financial crisis in Argentina, i.e. the prolonged overvaluation of the peso owing to the Currency Board arrangement, the lack of fiscal adjustment, and the negative external environment which triggered a “sudden...

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Trade, Poverty and Employment: The Social Consequences of Integration with China

Castro, Lucio; Saslavsky, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty, income distribution, welfare and employment. The case of Argentina, in particular, is investigated. To this end, partial equilibrium techniques are combined with micro econometric...

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Tango with the Dragon: Employment Effects of Trade Integration with China. The Case of Argentina

Castro, Lucio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper estimates the effects of trade integration between China and Mercosur on employment. The case of Argentina, in particular, is investigated. Highly disaggregated data at the industry level is used for the first time to estimate labor demand elasticities in order to estimate the effects...

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Exports, Foreign Direct Investment, and Productivity: Evidence from German Firm Level Data

Wagner, Joachim - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents the first empirical test with German establishment level data of a hypothesis derived by Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either trough exports or foreign direct investment: only the more...

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Export Behavior and Firm Productivity in German Manufacturing: A firm-level analysis

Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We …-productivity firms self-select themselves into export markets, while exporting itself does not play a significant role for productivity …

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