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Transparency in Meat Production – Consumer Perception at the Point of Sale

Deimel, Mark - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

As a result of a large number of food scandals, societal interest in transparency in the food sector has grown … address. Hence, the creation of transparency in the production process has been the focus of the legislation. In this context … foods. This is intended as a response to the general call for more transparency or a "gläserne Produktion ". It has not been …

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Private Standards and Employment Insecurity: GlobalGAP in the Senegalese Horticulture Export Sector

Colen, Liesbeth; Maertens, Miet - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

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Trade reform, migration, and a Chinese village economy

Kleinwechter, Ulrich; Grethe, Harald - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

Replaced with revised version of paper 09/27/11.

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Foreign Takeovers and Wages: Theory and Evidence from Hungary

Csengodi, Sandor; Jungnickel, Rolf; Urban, Dieter - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005

This study discriminates FDI technology spillover from learning effects. Whenever learning takes time, our model predicts that foreign investors deduct the economic value of learning from wages of inexperienced workers and add it to experienced ones to prevent them from moving to local...

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Gender Inequality and Trade

Busse, Matthias; Spielmann, Christian - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005

The paper empirically explores the international linkages between gender inequality and trade flows of a sample of 92 developed and developing countries. The focus is on comparative advantage in labour-intensive manufactured goods. The results indicate that gender wage inequality is positively...

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Export Structure, FDI and Child Labour

Busse, Matthias; Braun, Sebastian - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

The paper addresses the linkage between certain aspects of the increasing economic integration of world markets and the level of child labour. We empirically examine, first, the often-cited conventional wisdom that multinational enterprises invest in countries where the extent of child labour is...

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Foreign-Owned Firms in the German Labour Market

Jungnickel, Rolf; Keller, Dietmar - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

Compared to other Western European countries, Germany was less successful in attracting FDI in the 1990s. The falling behind in inward-FDI should be no problem if foreign-owned firms (FoFs) were only substitutes for indigenous firms. However, to the extent they differ significantly in terms of...

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Integration and Labour Markets in European Border Regions

Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Stiller, Silvia - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

Border regions are likely to play a critical role within the spatial dynamics initiated by the enlargement of the EU. This paper deals with the effects of integration on labour markets in border regions. Within the framework of different theoretical approaches, the effects of integration on...

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The Final Frontier? Border Effects and German Regional Wages

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

Recent studies of border effects have focused on the intra-country and inter-country comparison of trade flows. It is found that borders have a negative impact on the size of cross-border trade. In order to estimate border effects on a regional level one needs not only data on inter-country but...

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Internationalisierung der Dienstleistungserstellung: Konsequenzen fur den schweizerischen Arbeitsmarkt

Henneberger, Fred; Ziegler, Alexandre - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2001

This paper analyses the potential employment effects of foreign direct investment in the Swiss services industry. First … investment have a crucial influence on the consequences to be expected for the domestic labour market. Second, an initial attempt …

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