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North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the "Natural Trading Partners" Hypothesis

Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version … of the "natural trading partners" hypothesis seems to hold for Korea and Mexico though not necessarily for Poland. …

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Discrimination and the Effects of Drug Testing on Black Employment

Wozniak, Abigail - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Nearly half of U.S. employers test job applicants and workers for drugs. I use variation in the timing and nature of drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the testing sector is suppressed in the absence of testing,...

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Labour Market Discrimination against Former Juvenile Delinquents: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Baert, Stijn; Verhofstadt, Elsy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We identify hiring discrimination against former juvenile delinquents in a direct way. To this end we conduct a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. We find that labour market discrimination is indeed a major barrier in the transition to work for former juvenile delinquents. Labour...

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Instability of the Eurozone? On Monetary Policy, House Prices and Labor Market Reforms

Belke, Ansgar; Gros, Daniel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper deals with potential instabilities in the Eurozone stemming from an insufficient interplay between monetary policy and reform effort on the one hand and the emergence of intra-Euro area divergences on the other. As a first step, we assess the effect of EMU on structural reform and...

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Structural Reforms and the Exchange Rate Regime: A Panel Analysis for the World versus OECD Countries

Belke, Ansgar; Herz, Bernhard; Vogel, Lukas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We test the significance of the relationship between the exchange rate regime and the degree of structural reforms by estimating panel regressions for a world and an OECD country sample. The empirical results suggest a positive correlation between on the one side the adoption of an exchange rate...

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Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms: A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies

Belke, Ansgar; Vogel, Lukas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...

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Europe Agreements and Trade Balance: Evidence form Four New EU Members

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC-4) using both static and dynamic panel data approaches. Specifically, the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM, Blundell and Bond, 1998)...

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The Role of Association Agreements within European Union Enlargement to Central and Eastern European Countries

Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert; Sova, Ana Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The main goal of regionalization is the creation of free trade areas and the guarantee for countries to accede to a widened market. Many studies dealing with the effects of regional free trade agreements on trade flows already exist in the economic literature and the explosion in the number of...

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On the Bilateral Trade Effects of Free Trade Agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 Countries

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Ana … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...

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Does the Calculation Hold? The Fiscal Balance of Migration to Denmark and Germany

Hinte, Holger; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Calculating the net fiscal effects of immigration not just for a fiscal year but over the lifespan of immigrant cohorts accentuates the assets and deficits in migration and integration policies and their long-term potential. The less national policies concentrate on a labor migrant selection...

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