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Sticky feet : how labor market frictions shape the impact of international trade on jobs and wages
Hollweg, Claire H. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394027
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Productivity growth and product variety : gains from imitation and education
Addison, Douglas - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523412
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Productivity matters for trade policy : theory and evidence
Karacaovali, Baybars - 2006
the positive effect of liberalization on productivity when they do not account for the endogeneity bias. On the theory …"There is a growing literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity. Nearly all such … studies assume that trade policy is determined independently of productivity, hence it is exogenous. The author shows that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522136
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Losing the Gains of the Past : The Welfare and Distributional Impacts of the Twin Crises of 2014 in Iraq
World Bank - 2015
Iraq was plunged into two simultaneous crises in the second half of 2014, one driven by a sharp decline in oil prices, the other, by Islamic State militants. Since June 2014, crude oil prices per barrel have fallen from around 112 USD to 97 USD in September and 62 USD by December. Given Iraq's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644515
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Protection, openness, and factor adjustment : evidence from the manufacturing sector in Uruguay
Casacuberta, Carlos - 2006
"The authors use a panel of manufacturing firms to analyze the adjustment process in capital blue collar and white collar employment in Uruguay during a period of trade liberalization when average tariff protection fell from 43 to 14 percent. They calculate the desired factor levels arising from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522169
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Doha scenarios, trade reforms, and poverty in the Philippines : a computable general equilibrium analysis
Cororaton, Caesar Bucia - 2005
"Since the early 1980s the Philippines has undertaken substantial trade reform. The current Doha Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations is now likely to bring further reform and shocks to world import prices and export demand. The impact of all these developments on the poor is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522462
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The impact on Russia of WTO accession and the DOHA agenda : the importance of liberalization of barriers against foreign direct investment in services for growth and poverty reduct...
Rutherford, Thomas Fox - 2005
Dixit-Stiglitz endogenous productivity effects from liberalization of import barriers against goods and FDI in services. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522475
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Would multilateral trade reform benefit Sub-Saharan Africans?
Anderson, Kym - 2005
"This paper examines whether the Sub-Saharan African economies could gain from multilateral trade reform in the presence of trade preferences. The World Bank's LINKAGE model of the global economy is employed to examine the impact first of current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522584
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The impact of trade liberalization on household welfare in Vietnam
Seshan, Ganesh - 2005
"What is the effect of trade liberalization on households in developing countries? To what extent do the poor benefit when local markets are made more accommodative to international trade? The author empirically analyzes the distributional impact of trade policies on households in a low-income...
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