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North-South Technology Spillovers: The Relative Impact of Openness and Foreign R&D

Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D...

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Trade Policy and Labor Services: Final Status Options for the West Bank and Gaza

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

This paper considers the policy options of the West Bank and Gaza (WBG) with respect to trade and the exports of labor services. It concludes that i) a non-discriminatory trade policy (NDTP) is unambiguously superior to an FTA with Israel; ii) the WBG should pursue a NDTP with all its neighbors,...

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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

outsourcing activities, the increased flow of direct foreign investment and its heterogeneous regional distribution, the increased …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703160

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 …

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Trade, Wages, and Productivity

Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies competition, and forces the least efficient firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate...

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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...

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Genetic, Cultural and Geographical Distances

Giuliano, Paola; Spilimbergo, Antonio; Tonon, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper investigates how the measures of genetic distance between populations, which have been used in anthropology and historical linguistics, can be used in economics. What does the correlation between genetic distance and economic variables mean? Using the measure of genetic distance, a...

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Factor Endowment and Market Size in EU-CEE Trade: Would Human Capital Change the Actual Quality Trade Patterns?

Ferragina, Anna Maria; Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper aims to test several hypotheses on the determinants of the quality of trade in cross-country regressions, taking a sample of trade competitors in EU markets. The hypotheses are those underlying two models of VIIT: the so-called neo-H-O model based on factor endowment and an "economic...

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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus. First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. The existence of these so-called exporter wage premia is one of the stylized facts...

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The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data (1971–96) for importable and exportable sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes...

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