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Surviving the Turbulence Is Not Enough: Can Côte d'Ivoire Flourish Again?
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Côte d'Ivoire is the world’s largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans, it accounts for 40% of the WAEMU's output, and 11% of its population are immigrant workers. Any political instability in the country will not only affect the domestic economy, but it will also affect the international...
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What Can We Learn About the Decline in U.S. Union Membership from International Data?
Polachek, Solomon W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper is composed of two parts. First, using international data, I corroborate that union density in the U.S. declined because of asymmetric growth between the union and nonunion sectors. I show union density to increase in countries experiencing strong manufacturing growth, and to decline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703802
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Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation
Robst, John; Polachek, Solomon; Chang, Yuan-Ching - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with geographic distance. Trade reduces conflict to a greater extent when dyads are geographically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822632
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On the Multivariate Analysis of the "Lisbon Process"
Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno; Bajalan, Chemen S.J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Starting from Professor Kornai’s assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762392
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Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...
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How Do Immigrants from Taiwan Fare in the U.S. Labor Market?
Lin, Carl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have grown rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S. economy. Our estimates indicate that the rising returns to education, pre-migration experience and hours worked per week play...
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Long-term Effects of Early Childhood Malaria Exposure on Education and Health: Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
Chang, Simon; Fleisher, Belton M.; Kim, Seonghoon; Liu, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855348
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural …
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Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market: How Good is it for Africa?
Co, Catherine Y.; Dimova, Ralitza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential …
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