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Resource-based reluctance, reversed asymmetry, and non-trade integration incentives: theory and evidence from European neighbourhood
Franke, Anja; Gawrich, Andrea; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009
Among ENP countries, Azerbaijan is outstanding because it leans on its resource base and sees the EU at the receiving end of bilateral relations. At the other extreme, Ukraine depends on EU cooperation, especially with respect to trade. We develop a comprehensive theoretical concept for...
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Education, governance, and trade- and distance-related technology diffusion : accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP gap, and the TFP impact of South America's greater dist...
Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2017
This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology …-related) model. Findings are: i) TFP increases with education, trade, governance (ETG) and imports' R&D content, and declines with … gap than raising governance or openness; iv) the TFP impact on South America relative to Mexico due to its greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120103
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Formal and informal labour markets: Challenges and policy in the Central and Eastern European new EU members and candidate countries
Schneider, Friedrich; Burger, Christina - 2004
The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294504
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Sustainable Consumption and Worktime Reduction
Schor, Juliet - 2004
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Contract farming and food security in developing economies : a framework model for spillover impact
Das, Gouranga Gopal; Bhattacharya, Ranajoy - 2024
Empirical literature on the effect of Contract Farming (CF) on economic development of a Less Developed Economy (LDC) is divided on the basic issue of concern for the policy makers in LDCs: should CF be encouraged, and if so, under what circumstances? Broadly, there are both intermediate (yield,...
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Is there an informal employment wage penalty in Egypt
Tansel, Aysit; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2015
This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account observable...
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The more the gloomier : development of informal employment and its effect on wages in Turkey
Duman, Anil; Duman, Alper - 2021
Various studies found wage gaps between formal and informal sector workers even after controlling for a number of individual and firm level characteristics. It has also been shown that earnings differentials across these sectors are quite stable over the years. While there is limited amount of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012548495
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Pay gaps and mobility for lower and upper tier informal sector employees : an investigation of theTurkish labor market
Duman, Anil - 2020
Many empirical studies found wage gaps between formal and informal sector workers even after controlling for a number of individual and firm level characteristics. While there is limited amount of research considering the same question in the Turkish labor market, wage gap between formal and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269077
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Trade, Earnings, and Mobility - Swedish Evidence
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Lundborg, Per - 2000
Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish labor market in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Earnings respond significantly to changes in industry sales, whether generated by domestic market forces or international trade:...
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Insider Bargaining Power, Starting Wages, and Involuntary Unemployment
Gottfries, Nils; Sjöström, Tomas - 1999
Recent analyses of wage bargaining has emphasized the distinction between insiders and outsiders, yet one typically assumes that insiders and recently hired outsiders are paid the same wage. We consider a model where the starting wage for outsiders may be lower than the insider wage, but...
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