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International Migration and Trade Agreements: the new role of PTAs
Orefice, Gianluca - FIW - 2013
This paper investigates empirically the role of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) as determinants of migration inflows for 29 OECD countries in the period 1998-2008. By increasing information about signatory countries, PTAs are expected to drive migration flows towards member countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010631750
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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 been done by analyzing gross trade flows related to offshore activities using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of supply-side country differences. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856777
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Foreign Trade and FDI in the Austrian Regions – A new methodology to estimate regional trade and an analysis of the crisis effects
Römisch, Roman - FIW - 2012
employment and other supplemental data. This allows estimating Austrian regional foreign trade for the years 1999 to 2009. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603981
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008456792
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Foreign Trade and FDI in the Austrian Regions – A new methodology to estimate regional trade and an analysis of the crisis effects
Römisch, Roman - FIW - 2012
employment and other supplemental data. This allows estimating Austrian regional foreign trade for the years 1999 to 2009. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010593663
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Wage effects of U.S. service offshoring by skills and tasks
Püschel, Julia - FIW - 2013
’ 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 …-skilled workers, service offshoring negatively affected the real wage of the most tradable occupations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010630700
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Foreign Trade in the Austrian Regions
Römisch, Roman - FIW - 2012
employment and other supplemental data. This allows for the estimation of foreign trade of the Austrian regions for the years … decline of foreign trade led to an employment loss in all Austrian regions, Vorarlberg and Tyrol proved to be much more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584121
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Coverage and enforceability of investment rules in PTAs: the role of global value chain trade and regulatory differences
Bruhn, Dominique - FIW - 2015
Against the background of a changing landscape of trade and investment governance in the 21st century, characterised by the proliferation of deep preferential trade agreements (PTAs), this paper econometrically tests the importance of global value chain trade and regulatory differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183582
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Export Diversification Effects of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement
Beverelli, Cosimo; Neumüller, Simon; Teh, Robert - FIW - 2015
We estimate the effects of trade facilitation on export diversification, as measured by two extensive margins: the number of products exported by destination and the number of export destinations served by product. To address the issue of causality, we employ an identification strategy whereby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133729
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The effects of factor and sector biased technical change revisited
Stehrer, Robert - FIW - 2007
In the trade-technology-wage debate, the effects of the various forms of technical progress on relative factor prices … relative wage rates are rising or falling in the domestic and foreign economies are derived. This is done for various types of … supply, the relative factor endowment and the prevailing (equilibrium) relative wage rate - allow for straightforward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558195