African Development Community (SADC), a regional integration agreement (RIA) organization, the central objective of whose …

effects of such deep integration differ from other forms and investigates what drives these effects. Using a structural …

This paper addresses two main questions: (a) Has European integration hindered the implementation of labour, financial …

Even when international product market integration is taking place between fairly similar countries with low labour … through exports and threats from imports. Is there any reason why the benefits and costs of product market integration should … be unequally distributed across different groups in the labour market? Considering integration as a gradual process …

large unions deregulate the labor market and support firms. -- Economic integration ; minimum wage ; market power …

purpose of integration is to maximize a weighed average of workers' and capitalists' utilities. The main findings are as … follows. Integration benefits capitalists more than workers. If labour unions are strong enough, then the common market can … expand indefinitely. Otherwise, there is an upper limit for integration. This is the higher, the higher producer market power …

the European Union which are aimed at fostering dispersion in general, are counterproductive when trade integration is …