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The Rise of U.S. Antidumping Activity in Historical Perspective

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2021

Empirical studies of antidumping activity focus almost exclusively on the period since 1980. This paper puts recent U ….S. antidumping experience in historical context by studying the determinants of annual case filings over the past half century. The … conventional view that few antidumping cases existed prior to 1980 is not correct, although most did not result in the imposition …

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Labor Costs and Corporate Investment in Italy

Garcia-Macia, Daniel - 2020

The recovery of private investment in Italy has lagged its euro area peers over the past decade. This paper examines the role of elevated labor costs in hindering the recovery. Specifically, labor costs rose faster than labor productivity prior to the global financial crisis and have remained...

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Competition, Competitiveness and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cherif, Reda - 2020

Does greater product market competition improve external competitiveness and growth? This paper examines this question by using country-and firm-level data for a sample of 39 sub-Saharan African countries over 2000-17, as well as other emerging market economies and developing countries, and...

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Distributional Implications of Labor Market Reforms : Learning from Spain's Experience

Stepanyan, Ara - 2020

Spain's structural reforms, implemented around 2012, have arguably contributed to a faster and stronger economic recovery. In particular, there is strong evidence that the 2012 labor market reforms increased wage flexibility, which helped the Spanish economy to regain competitiveness and create...

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The Minimum Wage Puzzle in Less Developed Countries : Reconciling Theory and Evidence

Adam, Christopher - 2020

We show that a dynamic general equilibrium model with efficiency wages and endogenous capital accumulation in both the formal and (non-agricultural) informal sectors can explain the full range of confounding stylized facts associated with minimum wage laws in less developed countries

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Labor Market Dynamics, Informality and Regulations in Latin America

David, Antonio C. - 2020

Labor markets in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are characterized by high levels of informality and relatively rigid regulation. This paper shows that these two features are related and together make the speed of adjustment of employment to shocks slower, especially when regulations are...

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Wage Growth and Inflation in Europe : A Puzzle?

Boranova, Vizhdan - 2020

Wages have been rising faster than productivity in many European countries for the past few years, yet signs of underlying consumer price pressures remain limited. To shed light on this puzzle, this paper examines the historical link between wage growth and inflation in Europe and factors that...

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Immigration and Wage Dynamics in Germany

Klinger, Sabine - 2020

German wages have not increased very rapidly in the last decade despite strong employment growth and a 5 percentage point decline in the unemployment rate. Our analysis shows that a large part of the decline in unemployment was structural. Micro-founded Phillips curves fit the German data rather...

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What is the Impact of Increased Business Competition?

Feliz, Sonia - 2020

This paper studies the macroeconomic effect and underlying firm-level transmission channels of a reduction in business entry costs. We provide novel evidence on the response of firms' entry, exit, and employment decisions. To do so, we use as a natural experiment a reform in Portugal that...

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Guilt, Gender, and Work-Life Balance in Japan : A Choice Experiment

Aoyagi, Chie - 2020

The quantification of how aspects of a job are valued by employees sheds light on the potential for labor market reform in Japan. Using a nationwide sample of 1,046 working-age adults, we conduct a choice experiment that examines individuals' willingness to trade wages against job...

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