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We analyze the welfare effects of trade and migration, focusing on two-sided horizontal heterogeneity among workers and …, migration lowers wage markups and tends to improve the average matching quality. Our model advocates opening up labor markets …
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We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two … sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment … real wages and unemployment levels in the unskilled labor intensive sector. However, the inequality of workers between …
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profits, involuntary unemployment and within-group wage inequality in a unified framework. We use this model to investigate … simultaneous increase of average profits and involuntary unemployment as well as a surge in within-group wage inequality …
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This paper analyzes the setting of national patent policies in the global economy. In the standard model with free trade and social-welfare-maximizing governments à la Grossman and Lai (2004), cross-border positive policy externalities induce individual countries to select patent strengths that...
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We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...
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We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …
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We analyze the migration drivers within the European Union countries. For a set of 23 EU countries over the 1995 …-2019 period, we use Bayesian Model Averaging and quantile regression to assess notably the relevance of unemployment and earnings … addition, 1000 PPP Euro increase in the difference in net annual salaries increases net migration by approximately 50 and 42 …
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When the world economy was recently hit by a severe recession, governments all over the world reacted by initiating …
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dissimilar in terms of unemployment of welfare. Decentralization of wage setting can successfully prevent capital outflow and the …
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dimensions: Involuntary unemployment and income inequality between entrepreneurs and workers increase, and so does inequality …
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