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Export Growth and Factor Market Competition: Theory and Some Evidence
Namini, Julian Emami; Facchini, Giovanni; Lopez, Ricardo A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
Empirical evidence suggests that sectoral export growth decreases exporters' survival probability, whereas this is not true for non-exporters. Models with firm heterogeneity in total factor productivity (TFP) predict the opposite. To solve this puzzle, we develop a two{factor framework where...
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Return to Education in Vietnam: Wage versus Employment Effect
Oostendorp, Remco H.; Quang, Doan Hong - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
. These studies have typically estimated the return to education in terms of changes in wages rather than employment …, effectively ignoring the fact that trade liberalization affects not only wages but also employment opportunities. In this paper we … trade liberalization on the return to education taking into account both changes in wages and employment. The results show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256311
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Transaction Management: Value Creation by Reducing Transaction Costs
Butter, Frank A.G. den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This discussion paper led to a publication in (W.D. Nelson (Ed.)), <I>Advances in Business and Management</I> (pp. 1-32), New York: Nova Publishers, 2011. In this era of globalization we see an increase in specialization: the production chain issplit up in more and more parts and the production of...</i>
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Macroeconomic Crisis and Individual Firm Performance: The Mexican Experience
Watkins, Karen; Dijk, Dick van; Spronk, Jaap - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
This paper considers financial, operational, solvency, and performance ratios, in order to detect when there were balance sheets’ variations related to the 1994 Mexican currency crisis. Quarterly results for 88 non-financial Mexican companies that survived the crisis are used, and tests for...
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Imports as Product and Labour Market Discipline
Boulhol, Hervé; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Maioli, Sara - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <I>British Journal of Industrial Relations</I>, 49(2), 331-361. 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2009.00760.x<P> This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labour markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a...</p></i>
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Does Access to Foreign Markets shape Internal Migration? Evidence from Brazil
Hering, Laura; Paillacar, Rodrigo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
This paper investigates how internal migration is a affected by Brazil's increased integration into the world economy. We analyze the impact of regional differences in access to foreign demand on sector-specific bilateral migration rates between the Brazilian states for the years 1995 to 2003....
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Assessing the Impact of Trade Policy on Labor Markets and Production
Francois, Joseph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
This paper discusses the measurement of production and employment effects of trade policy, and more broadly the effects …
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Globalization, Roundaboutness, and Relative Wages
Francois, Joseph; Grier, Kevin; Nelson, Douglas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
We depart from the trade and wages literature and its emphasis on North-South trade, examining North-North by developing the basic linkages between trade-based integration and relative wages in an Ethier-type division of labor model. Using this model we identify a formal relationship between...
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Victims of Progress: Economic Integration, Specialization, and Wages for Unskilled Labor
Francois, Joseph; Nelson, Douglas R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
In this paper we demonstrate that intra-industry trade (or FDI)between identical countries could produce theobserved deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers.This involves a model of North-Northintegration through either increased trade flows or increased MNE-based production....
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Interaction of Regional Population and Employment
Vermeulen, Wouter; Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
We investigate the interaction of regional population and employment in a simu1taneousmodel, allowing for interregional … levels of population and employment as a labour marketequilibrium. The model is estimated on a panel of 1973-2000 annual data … dominated by housing market developments and in the shortrun on1y slightly affected by increases in regional employment. The …
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