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Trade liberalization, economic activity, and political violence in the Global South : evidence from PTAs
Amodio, Francesco; Baccini, Leonardo; Chiovelli, Giorgio; … - 2023
This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries and their high-income trade partners between 1995...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014246721
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The real exchange rate and external competitiveness in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia
Brixiova, Zuzana; Égert, Balázs; Hadj Amor, Thouraya - 2013
Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia face challenges competing on the global markets, as shown by their relatively low and … countries' real exchange rate misalignments during the past three decades. While Egypt experienced periods of substantial … misalignment, including in recent years, the exchange rates in Morocco and Tunisia have broadly reflected the underlying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227730
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A tale of parallel processes of gender (in-) equality : how big is the glass ceilings for Mena women?
Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Pastore, Francesco - 2022
In all the MENA countries considered in this study, namely Jordan, Egypt and Tunisia, there has been a significant … periods of up to 20 years (for Egypt), we examine the evolution of the glass ceiling problem for women resorting to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170241
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Female labor force participation in five selected Mena countries: an age-period-cohort analysis (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia)
Lassassi, Moundir; Tansel, Aysıt - 2020
namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305902
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Economies of scale in the Tunisian industries
Heshmati, Almas; Haouas, Ilham - 2011
To date, empirical investigations of trade liberalization under the conditions of increasing returns to scale (IRS) and imperfect competition (IC) have either assumed or imposed the market and productive structures necessary for such a model. However, of the recent IRS/IC models used to simulate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307409
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Trade liberalization and labor-demand elasticities : empirical evidence from Tunisia
Haouas, Ilham (contributor); Yagoubi, Mahmoud (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001982797
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The impacts of trade liberalization on employment and wages in Tunisian industries
Haouas, Ilham (contributor); Yagoubi, Mahmoud (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001744048
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Trade as a wage disciplining device
Persyn, Damiaan (contributor) - 2008
We estimate how trade openness affects the relationship between wages, labour productivity and foreign wages using sector-level time series for several EU member states. In some countries wages became less responsive to foreign wages as trade costs declined. We show this counter-intuitive result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771050
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How deep is your love? : a quantitative spatial analysis of the transatlantic trade partnership
Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael - 2015
World Input Output Database (WIOD). We also explore the consequences of labor mobility across local labor markets in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516481
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The effect of migration and spatial connectivity on regional skill endowments across Europe : 1988 - 2010
Tani, Massimiliano; Manuguerra, Maurizio - 2013
This paper investigates the effects of labour migration and openness to trade on regional skill endowments across the European Union at a time of increased economic integration. Using regional data from Eurostat's Regio database and the open web source Openflight for the period 1998-2010 we test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721312