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Is More Mobility Good? Firm Mobility and the Low Wage-Low Productivity Trap

Seguino, Stephanie - EconWPA - 2005

productivity growth in semi- industrialized economies. These effects are hypothesized to operate through the negative impact of … firms to raise productivity in defense of profits, contributing to a low wage–low productivity trap. This paper presents … causal link between increased firm mobility and lower wages, as well as slower productivity growth over the period 1970–2000. …

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Biased Technical Change and the Malmquist Productivity Index

Fare, R.; Grifell-Tatje, E.; Grosskopf, S.; Lovell, C.A.K. - EconWPA - 1995

The Malmquist productivity index has many attractive features. One is that it decomposes into a technical efficiency … bias index makes no contribution to productivity change. …

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Fiscal Policy, Human Capital, and Canada-US Labor Market Integration

Wildasin, David E. - EconWPA - 2003

worker heterogeneity, and that mobility provides a form of insurance for investment in risky human capital. Mobility also …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076579

Turkiye'nin dunya ekonomisine entegrasyon sureci ( The integration process of Turkey into the world economy) (IN TURKISH)

HALICIOGLU, Ferda - EconWPA - 2005

This study brifly looks into the process of Turkey into the world economy and concludes that this process has been accelareted in the 1990s.

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Proliferating Regional Trade Arrangements: Why and Whither?

Lee, Jong-Wha; Park, Innwon; Shin, Kwanho - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates why regional trade arrangements (RTAs) are proliferating extensively and how the effects of multiple RTAs, by interacting with each other, evolve over time. Our empirical analysis, based on an extended gravity model utilizing a large panel data set of 175 countries from...

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The influence of capital origin on Brazilian foreign trade patterns

Hiratuka, Celio; Negri, Fernanda De - EconWPA - 2005

This article aims to determine whether the geographical pattern of the external trade of foreign-owned enterprises in Brazil differs from that of domestic enterprises and whether, in the case of foreign enterprises, the region of origin of their capital is an important factor in determining that...

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Formulas for Success? Some Options for Market Access Negotiations

Francois, Joseph - EconWPA - 2002

Most of the large tariff reductions achieved in multilateral trade negotiations have involved the use of tariff-cutting formulas, such as the “Swiss” formula. But the wide variations in initial tariff rates between active participants may create a demand for new approaches in the Doha...

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Unequal Exchange: Developing Countries in the International Trade Negotiations

Nogues, Julio J. - EconWPA - 2005

The results of the Uruguay Round, show that the concessions given by developing countries were generally more valuable than those they received from industrial countries. I suggest that this outcome is explained by aggressive demands from industrial countries, and by the lack of resources at the...

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Millennium Budget Behind Its Time?

Panagariya, Arvind - EconWPA - 2003

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FOREIGN TRADE INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES - The Case of FR Yugoslavia

Popovic, Danica - EconWPA - 2005

This study is divided in ten sections. The first three sections are devoted to macroeconomic performance of the economy in the 1990s, followed by the analysis of contemporary foreign trade performance and institutions. The overall and dramatic decay starting from 1990 is registered in all topics...

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