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Competitiveness at the country-sector level : new measures based on global value chains
Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2018
We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...
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How deep is your love? : a quantitative spatial analysis of the transatlantic trade partnership
Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael - 2015
This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a new quantitative spatial trade model and to use an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516481
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Does bilateral trust affect international movement of goods and labor? : conference paper
Spring, Eva; Grossmann, Volker - 2013
Trust in the citizens of a potential partner country may affect the decision to trade with or to migrate to a foreign country. This paper employs panel data to examine the causal impact of such bilateral trust on international trade and migration patterns. We apply instrumental variables (IV)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338889
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North-South technology spillovers : the relative impact of openness and foreign R&D
Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor); Wang, Yanling (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D...
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Determinants of trade margins : insights using state export data
Coughlin, Cletus Charles; Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2015
extensive than on the intensive margin of trade. Unlike Lawless (2010), but consistent with a truncated Pareto distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388300
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Does bilateral trust affect international movement of goods and labor?
Spring, Eva; Grossmann, Volker - 2013
Trust in the citizens of a potential partner country may affect the decision to trade with or to migrate to a foreign country. This paper employs panel data to examine the causal impact of such bilateral trust on international trade and migration patterns. We apply instrumental variables (IV)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740340
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Evolution of the industrial wage structure in China since 1980
Kwon, O. Hyun; Fleisher, Belton M.; Deng, Quheng - 2011
Industry mean wages in China have exhibited sharply increased dispersion since the early 1990s. The upward trend in … contributed to wage inequality due monopoly rent sharing. We show that the industrial wage dispersion in China has evolved to … ; China …
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Left behind, at risk, and vulnerable elders in rural China : what the RUMIC data reveal about the extent, causes, and consequences of being left behind
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2015
Migration of any distance separates family members for long periods of time. In China, an institutional legacy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307894
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Do social networks improve Chinese adults' subjective well-being?
Lei, Xiaoyan; Shen, Yan; Smith, James P.; Zhou, Guangsu - 2015
associated with higher SWB across such diverse groups as being a member of the communist party or a religious organization. China …
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Cultural and ethnic differences in the transitions from work to "eetirement" of rural elders in China's minority regions
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2015
This paper considers the work to "retirement" transitions of the rural elders in China who reside in seven regions with … substantial minority populations. The data employed, those of the China Household Ethnicity Survey, are ideal for examining the … beyond education, the strongest predictors of labor force participation for China's rural elders are age, disability …
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