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Emphasis on market-friendly macroeconomic and development strategies in recent years has resulted in deleterious effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example of East Asia states, which recognized their position as...
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This paper studies the effect of local trade networks on the spatial distribution of employment in a Cooper and John …, then the long run spatial distribution of employment is uniform, and independent of any trade network topology. When labor …
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, 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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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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International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labor market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
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International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labor market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556481
In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first investigate the effects of corporatism on macroeconomic performance vis-à-vis different kinds of non-co-operative equilibria. Afterwards, we introduce in the literature the issue...
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employment performance than decentralised ones. We apply static and dynamic panel data techniques to a panel of EU countries. Our …
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This paper investigates the effects of cooperation (corporatism) on macroeconomic performance by considering a rather standard policy game between the government and a monopoly union. We stress the shortcomings of the traditional way used to model cooperation in policy games (the maximization of...
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present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … employment and participation rates. We begin with a detailed analysis of the reasons of the rapid decrease of employment and … on structural mismatch between labour demand and labour supply in Poland. We find that the employment gap between Poland …
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