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Turkey and the EU : politics and economics of accession
Flam, Harry - 2003
This paper discusses political and economic aspects of Turkish accession. Under present rules, Turkey would have the greatest number of council votes within twenty years, and receive the largest budget transfer. Free migration may increase the Turkish immigrant population in Germany from 2 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506471
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Shedding light on the shadow economy : a global database and the interaction with the official one
Medina, Leandro; Schneider, Friedrich - 2019 - 2nd version
estimating the size of the shadow economy for 157 countries over 1991 to 2017. The results suggest that the OECD countries are by … far the lowest with values below 20% of off official GDP and the shadow economy is larger in Latin America and Sub ….9 %. What is really remarkable, that the average decline of the shadow economy from 1991 to 2017 is 6.8 percentage points. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138830
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Transparency, specialization and FDI
Razin, Asaf; Tsadḳah, Efrayim - 2004
We develop a simple information-based model of FDI flows. On the one hand, the relative abundance of intangible capital in specialized industries in the source countries, which presumably generates expertise in screening investment projects in the host countries, enhances FDI flows. On the other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402538
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Long memory in US real output per capita
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2009
This paper analyses the long memory properties of quarterly real output per capita in the US (1948Q1 - 2008Q3) using non-parametric, semi-parametric and parametric techniques. The results vary substantially depending on the methodology employed. Evidence of mean reversion is obtained in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850276
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Taxation of pensions in Portugal : is there a rationale for a semi-dual income tax system?
Bravo, Jorge Miguel Ventura - 2016
economy faces in designing a tax regime. The adoption may be a result of a clear tax reform strategy or simply an outcome of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499817
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Beyond Balassa and Samuelson : real convergence, capital flows, and competitiveness in Greece
Belke, Ansgar; Haskamp, Ulrich; Schnabl, Gunther; … - 2015
We scrutinize the role of capital flows for competitiveness in seven euro-area countries in the context of real convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include international capital markets. Capital flows are assumed to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350203
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Does remote work improve or impair firm labour productivity? : longitudinal evidence from Portugal
Monteiro, Natália Pimenta; Straume, Odd Rune; Valente, … - 2019
Whether or not the use of remote work increases firm labour productivity is theoretically ambiguous. We use a rich and representative sample of Portuguese firms, and within-firm variation in the policy on remote work, over the period 2011-2016, to empirically assess the causal productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138797
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The diffusion of knowledge via manager's mobility
Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; Sforza, Alessandro - 2016
Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge the manager has acquired and successfully diffused...
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Fast fashion : theory and evidence from Portuguese textile and clothing firms
Fernandes, Ana; Tang, Heiwai - 2020
We study how firms respond to import competition by increasing the speed of trade. We use data on all Portuguese textile and clothing exporters' monthly transactions and exploit the exogenous increase in competition following the removal of Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) quotas on Chinese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171758
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The sources of the union wage gap : the role of worker, firm, match, and jobtitle heterogeneity
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2018
Using matched employer-employee-contract data for Portugal - a country with near-universal union coverage - we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941280