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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 … labor demand elasticities in order to estimate the effects of trade with China on the employment rate. According to this …, trade with China did not have a significant effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization …

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

Castro, Lucio; Saslavsky, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

, income distribution, welfare and employment. The case of Argentina, in particular, is investigated. To this end, partial … agreement with China on sectoral and aggregate employment rates. According to this, trade with the PRC did not have a … significant effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization like the nineties. …

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Unemployment, wages and collective bargaining in the European Union

Hein, Eckhard; Schulten, Thorsten - EconWPA - 2004

concluded that the current EU economic and employment policies aiming at further wage restraint, wage differentiation and … part of a growth and employment oriented coordination of macro-economic policies. …

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Economia sintetica

Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 1998

Theoretical study identifying one modality with conditions necesary for the financial stabilization of an inherently unstable system; and 5040 other unstable dynamic modes. It draws on knowledge made available by the academic field of Control Engineering.

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Education, incomes, poverty and inequality in Ghana in the 1990s

Teal, Francis - EconWPA - 2004

Three issues are addressed in this paper. First, we use both household and macro data to establish how fast per capita consumption and incomes grew in Ghana in the 1990s. Second, we ask how much of the rise in incomes was due to rises in the level of human capital and how much reflected...

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The implications of tipping for economics and management

Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2003

Tipping is a phenomenon that illustrates the importance of social norms and psychological reasons in motivating economic behavior. People tip because this is the social norm and disobeying norms results in psychological disutility. Tipping is also economically important: in the United States...

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Tipping: The Economics of a Social Norm

Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2003

Tipping illustrates the importance of social norms in motivating economic behavior. People tip because this is the social norm and disobeying norms results in social disapproval that creates emotional disutility. Tipping is also economically important: in the United States alone, millions of...

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The Dark, and Independent, Side of the Italian Labour Market

Bovi, Maurizio - EconWPA - 2005

In many countries the shadow employment has a very high priority among policymakers. A new time series for this … the ineffectiveness of labour policies in converting black employment into regular one. …

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THE HIDDEN COSTS AND RETURNS OF INCENTIVES — TRUST AND TRUSTWORTHINESS AMONG CEOs

Fehr, Ernst; List, John A. - EconWPA - 2004

We examine experimentally how Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) respond to incentives and how they provide incentives in situations requiring trust and trustworthiness. As a control we compare the behavior of CEOs with the behavior of students. We find that CEOs are considerably more trusting and...

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Professional Advice

Ottaviani, Marco; Sorensen, Peter - EconWPA - 1999

Professional experts offer advice with the objective of appearing well informed. Their ability is evaluated on the basis of the advice given and the realized state of the world. We model this situation as a reputational cheap-talk game with continuous signal, state, and ability type spaces....

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