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International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China
Sun, Peng; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
the country to target the world as its market. This research discusses the role of international trade in China's economic … growth. It starts with a review of conceptions as well as the evolution of China's international trade regime and the policy … that China has taken in favor of trade sectors. In addition, China's international trade performance is analyzed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611315
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884140
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On the Pro-Trade Effects of Immigrants
Bratti, Massimiliano; De Benedictis, Luca; Santoni, Gianluca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very small geographical units (NUTS-3). Exploiting the very favorable setup offered by Italy's features – the very high number of countries of origin of immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960112
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How Deep Is Your Love? A Quantitative Spatial Analysis of the Transatlantic Trade Partnership
Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a new quantitative spatial trade model and to use an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273183
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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research: With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703160
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Ethnic Networks and U.S. Exports
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Coughlin, Cletus C.; Wall, Howard J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper provides new estimates of the effects of ethnic network on U.S. exports. In line with recent research, our dataset is a panel of exports from U.S. states to 29 foreign countries. Our analysis departs from the literature in two ways, both of which show that previous estimates of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703227
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Higher Wages in Exporting Firms: Self-Selection, Export Effect, or Both? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703236
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Social Attitudes and Economic Development: An Epidemiological Approach
Cahuc, Pierre; Algan, Yann - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper we develop a new empirical approach to uncovering the impact of social attitudes on economic development. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their forebears. In the spirit of the epidemiology literature,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703557
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Education, Governance and Trade-Related Technology Diffusion in Latin America
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper examines the impact on TFP of North-South trade-related technology diffusion in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). North-South R&D flows are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in the South. The main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703569
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Welfare Policies, Labour Taxation and International Integration
Andersen, Torben M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
How will international integration affect welfare policies? This paper considers the possibilities of financing public sector activities (public consumption and social security expenses) by general (wage) taxation in an economy which becomes more integrated in international product markets. Even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703732