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Trade with central and eastern Europe: Is it really a threat to wages in the west?
Polgár, Éva Katalin; Wörz, Julia - 2010
This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing industries) in 25 EU countries over the period from 1995 to 2005. By applying a cross-country and industry-specific approach, it is possible to control for unobserved heterogeneity at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605290
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Trade with Central and Eastern Europe : Is it Really a Threat to Wages in the West?
Polgar, Eva Katalin - 2010
This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing industries) in 25 EU countries over the period from 1995 to 2005. By applying a cross-country and industry-specific approach, it is possible to control for unobserved heterogeneity at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138239
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Wage structure effects of international trade: evidence from a small open economy
Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2011
In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605371
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Pensions and fertility: back to the roots - The introduction of Bismarck's pension scheme and the European fertility decline
Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - 2014
Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension system on … fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605779
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Pensions and Fertility : Back to the Roots -- The Introduction of Bismarck's Pension Scheme and the European Fertility Decline
Fenge, Robert - 2014
Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension system on … fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047746
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Firms' export dynamics: experience vs. size
Berthou, Antoine; Vicard, Vincent - 2013
This paper provides evidence about the impact that size and experience in exporting have on firms' dynamics, a critical input in models of firms' dynamics. The analysis uses a census of French exports by firm-destination-product over the period 1994-2008 with a monthly frequency. We first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605661
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Global value chains: a view from the euro area
Amador, João; Cappariello, Rita; Stehrer, Robert - 2015
This paper describes the main features of Global Value Chains (GVCs) in the euro area taken as a whole and compares with other large trade players like the US, China and Japan. In addition, the perspective of individual euro area countries is considered, with a focus on intra euro area linkages....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605806
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Networks of value added trade
Amador, João; Cabral, Sónia - 2016
Global Value Chains (GVCs) became the paradigm for the production of most goods and services around the world. Hence, interconnections among countries can no longer be adequately assessed through standard bilateral gross trade flows and new methods of analysis are needed. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605976
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Dominant currency pricing in international trade of services
Amador, João; Garcia, Joana; Mehl, Arnaud; Schmitz, Martin - 2024
We analyze, for the first time, how firms choose the currency in which they price transactions in international trade of services and investigate, using direct evidence, whether the US dollar (USD) plays a dominant role in services trade. Drawing on a new granular dataset on extra-European Union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014543670
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Global trade in final goods and intermediate inputs: Impact of FTAs and reduced "border effects"
Franco-Bedoya, Sebastian; Frohm, Erik - 2020
International trade in manufacturing goods has risen strongly over the past decades, contributing to the expansion of global value chains (GVCs). This paper studies how two factors contributed to this rise since 1970: (i) declining "border effects" that are arguably related to the ICT revolution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422072