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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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EFFICIENCY OF INSTITUTIONS, POLITICAL STABILITY AND INCOME DYNAMICS

Carmignani, Fabrizio - EconWPA - 2005

In a simple theoretical framework, the quality of institutions affects individual’s investment decisions, and hence income levels and distribution. When institutions deteriorates and inequalities increase, the incumbent undertakes redistributive taxation to maintain political support. The...

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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 … likely effects of an FTA with China on poverty and income distribution. We find that the FTA would result in a small … reduction in poverty as well as an improvement in the income distribution. Highly disaggregated data at the industry level is …

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Linking Representative Household Models with Household Surveys for Poverty Analysis A Comparison of Alternative Methodologies

Agénor, Pierre-Richard; Chen, Derek; Grimm, Michael - EconWPA - 2004

terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of poverty reduction strategies. These … different results in absolute terms, we show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty effects …

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Changing Pattern of Poverty 1997-2004

Angeriz, Alvaro; Chakravarty, Shanti - EconWPA - 2005

It has been noted that failure to meet the target set by government for reducing the head count ratio of child poverty … argument that absolute poverty is not a meaningful idea, this apology for the failure of government to meet poverty targets …

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Where Did the Trade Liberalization Drive Latin American Economy: A Cross Section Analysis

Rajagopal - EconWPA - 2005

The institutional reforms towards trade liberalizations in Latin America during the 1980s and the 1990s have introduced a good measure of import competition, but trade policies alone are not sufficient to create a competitive environment in an economy. The countries in Latin America have not had...

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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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"Community Control in a Global Economy: Lessons from Mexico's Economic Integration Process"

Wise, Tim; Waters, Eliza - EconWPA - 2001

evidence that many of the pre-NAFTA warnings of worsening poverty and deteriorating environmental conditions were true, if …

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ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION AND WAGE INEQUALITY IN THE PRESENCE OF LABOUR MARKET IMPERFECTION

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Yabuuchi, Shigemi - EconWPA - 2005

Removal of tariff restrictions from the relatively low-skill sectors; growth in foreign direct investment; and, decline of trade union strength of the unskilled workers are cited in the empirical literature as the prime factors responsible for the growing incidence of wage inequality in many of...

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The Effects of Foreign Trade Liberalization and Financial Flows between Slovenia and the EU after the Accession

Majcen, Boris; Verbic, Miroslav; Knezevic, Sasa - EconWPA - 2005

The new version of the CGE model of the Slovenian economy, based on the 1998 SAM, was used for simulations of the consequences of further foreign trade liberalization after 1998 as the outcome of the finished processes of implementation of Free Trade Agreements and the European Agreement,...

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