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The welfare effects of globalization with labor market regulation
Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2015
I examine how globalization affects wages and welfare in a general equilibrium model of international trade with partly … oligopolistic markets. Globalization is modeled as reducing trade costs or opening up shielded sectors to trade. There is a national … contributions to the latter's decisions. Both a shift from national to international regulation and a decrease in trade costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347148
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Emigration from the UK, 1870 - 1913 and 1950 - 1998
Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001776070
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What makes a young entrepreneur?
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor);  … - 2007
entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003571667
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Immigration, human capital formation and endogenous economic growth
Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - 2015
Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428114
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Trade and inequality in Europe and the US
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021
The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...
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US Presidential Party switches are mirrored in global maternal mortality
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2021
We provide estimates of impacts on maternal mortality of swings in US aid for family planning and maternal health driven by switches in implementation of the Global Gag Rule (GGR) with US Presidential Party. The GGR is a pro-life policy that prohibits aid to overseas non-governmental...
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International evidence on well-being
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor) - 2008
; is U-shaped in age and un-trended over time in the USA although they are trended up in a number of EU countries and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003679395
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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation : evidence from European countries
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2018
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
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On the boundaries of the shadow economy : an empirical investigation
Manes, Eran; Schneider, Friedrich; Tchetchik, Anat - 2016
support to this view. We find that in countries with less stringent job market regulation the long-run impact of Unemployment … faster in countries with looser job-market regulation, compared with countries with stricter regulation. These findings have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517459
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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
. Countries with national wage coordination can thus stabilize overall employment against fluctuations and shocks in the world …
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