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The effect on foreign direct investment of membership in the European Union
Bruno, Randolph; Campos, Nauro; Estrin, Saul - 2020
effects of such deep integration differ from other forms and investigates what drives these effects. Using a structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288695
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Can intra-regional trade act as a global shock absorber in Africa?
Brixiova, Zuzana; Meng, Qingwei; Ncube, Mthuli - 2015
The global financial crisis and the subsequent uneven recovery have underscored the need for Africa's resilience to output and other shocks originated in the rest of the world. A comparison of two regional economic communities - the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern Africa Customs...
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Trade, wages, and productivity
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2008
endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies competition, and forces the least efficient …, our model is well suited to study the impacts of trade integration on aggregate productivity and factor prices. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755333
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Are the East African Community's countries ready for a common currency?
Rusuhuzwa, Thomas Kigabo; Heshmati, Almas - 2022
We use data from online job postings listed on a job board to study how the demand for jobs linked to new technologies during the COVID-19 crisis responded to pandemic mitigation policies. We classify job postings into a standard occupation classification, using text analytics, and we group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013173227
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Trade and capital flows: substitutes or complements? : an empirical investigation
Belke, Ansgar; Domnick, Clemens - 2019
This paper examines the linkages between the trade of goods and financial assets. Do both flows behave as complements (implying a positive correlation) or as substitutes (negative correlation)? Although a classic topic in international macroeconomics, the empirical evidence has remained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099470
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Re-orient? : MNC penetration and contemporary shifts in the global political economy
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009
This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the "Re-orient" approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896161
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Small state regional cooperation, South-South and South-North migration, and international trade
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2010
This paper provides a different basis than previous analyses for regional bloc formation and regional migration. Due to low bargaining power and fixed costs, small states face a severe disadvantage in negotiations with the rest of the world and might benefit by forming a regional bloc. The study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962846
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Labor mobility, trade and social capital
Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Economic integration of intermarried labour migrants, refugees and family migrants to Sweden : premium or selection?
Bevelander, Pieter; Irastorza, Nahikari - 2014
We use Swedish register data to compare the employment and income of immigrants who intermarry natives versus those of immigrants who intramarry other immigrants in Sweden. We conduct the same analyses on three subsamples: labour migrants, refugees and family migrants. We find that intermarried...
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Institutional integration and productivity growth: evidence from the 1995 enlargement of the European Union
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Franceschi, Emanuele - 2021
This paper studies the productivity effects of integration deepening. The identification strategy exploits the 1995 … integration, the average Norwegian region would have experienced an increase in yearly productivity growth of about 0.6 percentage … points. This method also helps determining the sources of heterogeneity, apparently inherent to integration, highlighting …
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