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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...
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Investment liberalisation, technology take-off and export market entry : does foreign ownership structure matter?
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2015
Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As part of this, existing restrictions on foreign ownership structure and mandatory export and technology transfer requirements imposed on foreign firms have been lifted in a number...
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On the reversibility of structural reforms
Campos, Nauro; Horváth, Roman - 2012
What are the factors that explain reversals in the implementation of structural reforms? Our main hypothesis is that reversals in different reforms are driven by different factors. This paper uses new reform indicators and presents novel evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537261
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Firm dynamics and residual inequality in open economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Impullitti, Giammario; Prat, Julien - 2014
Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....
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Labor market deregulation and female employment : evidence from a natural experiment in Japan
Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2014
This paper provides novel evidence on the causal effect on female employment of labor market deregulation by using the … 1985 amendments to the Labor Standards Law (LSL) in Japan as a natural experiment. The original LSL of 1947 prohibited … of labor market deregulation. Furthermore the 1985 treatment is found to have a lasting and growing impact on female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357347
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Do changes in regulation affect temporary agency workers' job satisfaction?
Busk, Henna; Jahn, Elke J.; Singer, Christine - 2015
This paper evaluates the impact on temporary agency workers' job satisfaction of a reform that considerably changed regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a difference-in-difference and matching approach and...
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Entry barriers and the labor market outcomes of incumbent workers : evidence from a deregulation reform in the German crafts sector
Lergetporer, Philipp; Ruhose, Jens; Simon, Lisa - 2018
We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …
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Pareto-improving structural reforms
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2018
elastic to net post-tax real wages, and hence reduced by taxation. In a setting where preferences are isoelastic, deregulation … regulation for some goods. I provide sufficient conditions for deregulation, i.e. a general reduction in price floors, to be …
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The agricultural origins of time preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403576
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Local labor market conditions and crime : evidence from the Brazilian trade liberalization
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2016
This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on developed countries with relatively low crime rates, we find that labor market conditions have a strong...
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