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The Influence of Trade with the EU-15 on Wages in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia between 1997 and 2005
Wacker, Konstantin - FIW - 2010
I use the STAN database of the OECD and different econometric methods to investigate the effects of exports towards the EU-15 on wages in the Visegrad countries (CEEC-4; Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). The results do not allow to draw any definite statements about this effect....
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Positioning Austria in the Global Economy: Value Added Trade, International Production Sharing and Global Linkages
Stehrer, Robert; Stöllinger, Roman - FIW - 2013
This study investigates Austria’s positions in international production sharing and global value chains exploiting the recently available Global Input-Output Database (WIOD). Researchers and policy-makers become increasingly aware of the fact that production processes are more and more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856816
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Wieviel Potenzial steckt in den BRICS?
Ebner, Verena; Mumme, Christina; Lueghammer, Wolfgang; … - FIW - 2014
Die vorliegende Studie zum Potenzial der BRICS-Staaten für die österreichische Außenwirtschaft diskutiert in einem ersten Schritt aktuelle makroökonomische Entwicklungen und strukturelle Aspekte der fünf BRICS-Staaten sowie die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen für die Zukunft. In einem...
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Global Value Chains: Implications for the Austrian economy
Kulmer, Veronika; Kernitzkyi, Michael; Köberl, Judith; … - FIW - 2015
This study focuses on the implications of rising global value chains (GVCs) on international trade and analysis the impacts on small open economies. Small open economies rely heavily on international trade and are highly integrated in global production networks but have so far been hardly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252677
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Incomplete specialization and offshoring across Europe
Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evžen - FIW - 2012
Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has … competing with the role of multilateral trade resistance. Our results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe …
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Wage effects of U.S. service offshoring by skills and tasks
Püschel, Julia - FIW - 2013
In this paper, I estimate the impact of service offshoring on the real wages of U.S. workers by controlling for workers …’ skill levels and the offshoring susceptibility of different tasks. Matching individual-level wage data with input … results from a Mincerian wage regression indicate that within skill groups, the impact of service offshoring on real wages …
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Fokus Finanzsektor – Österreichs Direktinvestitionen in Mittel- und Osteuropa
Stöllinger, Roman - FIW - 2010
Die mittel- und osteuropäischen Länder (MOEL) stellen wichtige Zielländer für die Direktinvestitions-Aktivitäten österreichischer Unternehmen und Banken dar. Seit 2001 entfielen stets über 50% der gesamten ausländischen Direktinvestitionen (FDI) auf diese Region, was sich erst 2009 durch...
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Time-Varying Interdependencies of Tourism and Economic Growth: Evidence from European Countries
Dragouni, Mina; Filis, George; Antonakakis, Nikolaos - FIW - 2013
In this study, we employ the novel measure of a VAR-based spillover index, developed by Diebold and Yilmaz (2012) to investigate the time-varying relationship between tourism and economic growth in selected European countries. Overall, the findings suggest that (i) the tourism-economy...
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The EU-Ukraine trade liberalization: How much do the costs of tariff elimination matter?
Frey, Miriam; Olekseyuk, Zoryana - FIW - 2013
The establishment of the currently negotiated Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between EU and Ukraine is the next significant step towards Ukraine’s deeper integration into the world economy, widely expected to result in additional welfare gains. As developing countries face some costs associated...
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Business Cycle Dynamics in the Euro Area: A Factor-SVAR Approach
Seymen, Atilim - FIW - 2009
The study investigates the business cycle dynamics in the euro area using an empirical framework which comprises common global and euro area shocks as well as allows bilateral spillovers of country-specific shocks across the member economies. Three core questions lie at the heart of the...
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