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Trade and capital flows : substitutes or complements? : an empirical investigation
Belke, Ansgar; Domnick, Clemens - 2018
This paper examines the linkages between the trade of goods and financial assets. Do both flows behave as complements (implying a positive correlation) or as substitutes (negative correlation)? Although a classic topic in international macroeconomics, the empirical evidence has remained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012150095
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Trends and drivers of inequality : recent evidence from Vietnam
Trang Huyen Dang; Cuong Viet Nguyen; Tung Duc Phung - 2022
This study provides evidence on the trends and drivers of inequality in Vietnam using Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys. We find that inequality, regardless of the choice of welfare indicators and inequality measurements, has been stable in Vietnam. Inequality in income or expenditure is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164186
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A simple model of the juggernaut effect of trade liberalisation
Baldwin, Richard E.; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
This paper posits a formal political economy model where the principle of reciprocity in multilateral trade talks results in the gradual elimination of tariffs. Reciprocity trade talks turn each nation’s exporters into anti-protectionists at home; they lower foreign tariffs by convincing their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928767
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Is Poland the next Spain?
Caselli, Francesco; Tenreyro, Silvana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
Eastern Europe the employment share of agriculture is typically quite large, and agriculture is particularly unproductive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745276
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Medicines in parallel trade in the European Union: a gravity specification
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Kanavos, Panos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
While recent research has explored the phenomenon of drug parallel trade in regulated environments such as the European Union (EU), or the European Economic Area, little is known about the mechanisms that explain its origin or the role of the distribution chain in exporting and importing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745350
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Was Germany ever united?: evidence from intra- and international trade 1885-1933
Wolf, Nikolaus - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
This paper asks whether Germany was ever an economically integrated area. I explore the geography of trade costs in a new data set of about 40,000 observations on regional trade flows within and across the borders of Germany over the period 1885 – 1933. There are three key results. First, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745395
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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings : workers and policymakers may fear that privatization leads to job losses and wage cuts, but what's the empirical evidence?
Earle, John S. - 2014
employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421952
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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings : workers and policymakers may fear that privatization leads to job losses and wage cuts, but what's the empirical evidence?
Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya - 2019
employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022520
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Obesity and labor market outcomes : the hidden private cost of obesity : lower earnings and lower probability of employment
Averett, Susan - 2014
people, particularly women, are less likely to be employed and, when employed, are likely to earn lower wages. There is some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415269
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Obesity and labor market outcomes : the hidden private cost of obesity : lower earnings and lower probability of employment
Averett, Susan - 2019
people, particularly women, are less likely to be employed and, when employed, are likely to earn lower wages. There is some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012042307