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Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asia-Pacific Integration : A Quantitative Assessment

Petri, Peter A. - 2014

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Ch 1. Introduction -- Ch 2. How and Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Became a Priority -- Historical Roots -- Objectives of the TPP -- Geopolitics -- Competing Templates -- The Emerging TPP Template -- Ch 3. Analytical Approach -- The Model --...

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asia-Pacific integration : a quantitative assessment

Petri, Peter A.; Plummer, Michael G.; Zhai, Fan - 2012

While global trade negotiations remain stalled, two tracks of trade negotiations in the Asia-Pacific--the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and a parallel Asian track--could generate momentum for renewed liberalization and provide pathways to region-wide free trade. We estimate...

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Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training

Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2011

We study the impact of regulatory barriers to entry on workplace training. We develop a model of training in imperfectly competitive product and labour markets. The model indicates that there are two contrasting effects of deregulation on training. As stressed in the literature, with a given...

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The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings

Brunello, Giorgio - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2007

in cohort size affect real earnings in Europe. This is an important question in the light of widespread population ageing … are more sensible to changes in cohort size in Southern Europe, which points to a lower degree of substitutability between … Europe is in line with the higher employment protection that its workers enjoy, at least compared to the workers located in …

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Does Body Weight affect Wages? Evidence from Europe.

Brunello, Giorgio; d'Hombres, Beatrice - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2006

labour market are heterogeneous, we estimate separate regressions for Northern and Southern Europe and find that the negative …

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