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Hit by the silk road : how wage coordination in Europe mitigates the China shock
Barth, Erling; Finseraas, Henning; Kjelsrud, Anders; … - 2020
Coordination in collective wage setting can constrain potential monopoly gains to unions in non-traded-goods industries. Countries with national wage coordination can thus stabilize overall employment against fluctuations and shocks in the world economy. We test this theory by exploring...
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A tale of parallel integration processes : a gravity analysis of EU trade with Mediterranean and Central and Eastern European countries
Ferragina, Anna (contributor);  … - 2005
Despite the EU emphasis on the 1995 Barcelona process, trade integration with the Mediterranean (MED) countries is still underdeveloped. To contrast the success of EU integration with MED countries and that with the new EU members, we compute the trade potential of these EU partners from 1995 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003275037
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The effect on foreign direct investment of membership in the European Union
Bruno, Randolph; Campos, Nauro; Estrin, Saul - 2020
This paper explores the impact of EU membership on foreign direct investment (FDI). It analyses empirically how the effects of such deep integration differ from other forms and investigates what drives these effects. Using a structural gravity framework on annual bilateral FDI data for almost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288695
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Environmental regulation and competitiveness : evidence from Romania
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010
estimates a gravity model to establish whether the implementation of more stringent regulations in Romania has indeed affected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003984793
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Eastern enlargement and EU-labour markets : perceptions, challenges and opportunities
Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2001
This paper summarises the key findings of a recent study on the impact of Eastern Enlargement of the European Union (EU) on labour markets in the current Member States. The study focuses on three main channels, along which enlargement may affect labour markets in the EU, namely i) trade, ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391753
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Does joining the EU make you happy? : evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016
We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the … context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern … life satisfaction in Bulgaria and had a positive but statistically insignificant effect in Romania. One explanation is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449769
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Job creation, Job destruction and employment growth in transition countries in the 90's
Faggio, Giulia; Konings, Jozef - 2001
and Romania. Using comparable firm level data over the years 1993- 1997, we find that in early transition job destruction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339676
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Should i stay or should i go? : Romanian migrants during transition and enlargements
Andrén, Daniela; Roman, Monica - 2014
, the aim of this paper is to analyze to what extent Romania's accession to the EU in 2007 has added new features to the … prefer to develop adjustment strategies in their destination countries. Romania's accession to the EU in 2007 did not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457404
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Nature of the relationship between minimum wage and the shadow economy size : an empirical analysis for the case of Romania
Davidescu, Adriana Ana Maria; Schneider, Friedrich - 2017
The recent increase in the minimum wage in Romania in early May 2016 represented a popular topic at the national level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785659
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Privatization and productivity in Romanian industry : evidence from a comprehensive enterprise panel
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001
productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402871