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Who's afraid of Virginia WU? : the labor composition and labor gains of trade

Bohn, Timon; Brakman, Steven; Dietzenbacher, Erik - 2019

There are various ways to indicate the importance of international trade. In this paper, we use the "labor footprint" concept to gain new insights into the implications of trade for employment. We focus on the US, but also provide information on 39 other, mostly developed, countries for the...

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Regional industrial effects in Germany from a potential gas deficit

Lehmann, Robert; Schult, Christoph - 2023 - This version: October 12, 2023

We estimate potential regional industrial effects in case of a threatening gas deficit. For Germany, the reduction leads to a potential decrease in industrial value added by 1.6%. The heterogeneity across German states is remarkable, ranging from 2.2% for Rhineland-Palatinate to 0.7% for...

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Growing together : Croatia and Latvia

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Hochreiter, Eduard - 2010

We compare and contrast the economic growth performance of Croatia and Latvia since the collapse of communism in 1991 … governance, and institutional reforms have played a significant role in raising economic output and efficiency in both Croatia … and Latvia. The EU perspective made a more significant contribution to growth in Latvia than in Croatia, even if Latvia …

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Old-age provision in transition : the case of Croatia

Werding, Martin; Primorac, Marko - 2016

The Croatian system of old-age provision comprises a traditional public pay-as-you-go scheme and a mandatory funded scheme ("second pillar") that will provide increasing amounts of supplementary pensions to those entering retirement in the future. Due to the continuing economic crisis, the...

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Do leaders affect ethical conduct?

D'Adda, Giovanna; Darai, Donja; Weber, Roberto A. - 2014

We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with dishonest behavior...

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Trade, wages, and profits

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2012

This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of the model in a data-set of five European...

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O brother, where start thou? : sibling spillovers on college and major choice in four countries

Altmejd, Adam; Barrios-Fernández, Andrés; Drlje, Marin; … - 2020 - Latest version: May 10, 2020

options, we present evidence from the United States, Chile, Sweden and Croatia that older siblings' college and major choices …

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Which sectors of a modern economy are most central?

Blöchl, Florian; Theis, Fabian J.; Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2010

We analyze input-output matrices for a wide set of countries as weighted directed networks. These graphs contain only 47 nodes, but they are almost fully connected and many have nodes with strong self-loops. We apply two measures: random walk centrality and one based on count-betweenness. Our...

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The structure of the American economy

Fisher, Eric O'Neill (contributor); … - 2008

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Closer look at revealed comparative advantage : gross-versus value added trade flows

Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2015 - This version: April 2015

With the availability of international value added trade data it has become evident that gross export data and value added data do not provide the same information. Although gross exports crosses national borders and is the target of trade policy, value added data tell us what fragment in the...

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