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Integrating south and southeast Asia through services value chain: The case of India and Thailand
Mukherjee, Arpita; Goyal, Tanu M. - 2015
Liberalisation and technological developments have led to the fragmentation of production and the emergence of the concept of global value chains. This has ushered in the role of services for linking the production network, resulting in a greater composition of services in the value of tradable....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807707
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Industrial specialisation, trade, and labour market dynamics in a multisectoral model of technological progress
Stehrer, Robert - 2001
The issue of the impact of trade on specialisation structures and the effects of trade liberalisation on employment and … part of the paper presents some simulation studies of the evolution of prices, output, employment and wage structures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294509
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Eastern enlargement of the EU: Jobs, investment and welfare in present member countries
Heijdra, Ben J.; Keuschnigg, Christian; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2001
concerns immigration, jobs and wages. We address these issues in a general equilibrium framework, both analytically and through …
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Economic Integration, Imperfect Competition, and International Policy Coordination
Holmlund, Bertil; Kolm, Ann-Sofie - 1999
as a reduction in trade costs. We explore how market integration influences policy spillovers, employment and real wages …. We also examine how national and supranational commodity tax policies affect sectoral and total employment. Finally, we …
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India-Myanmar border trade
Taneja, Nisha; Joshi, Sanjana; Singh, Thiyam Bharat; … - 2019
As India seeks to strengthen trade, investment and other forms of economic cooperation with ASEAN, Myanmar is an essential strategic partner, since it is the only ASEAN nation with which India shares both land and maritime borders. As a "gateway" to South East Asia, Myanmar is also vital in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099549
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How Similar Are European Business Cycles?
Bergman, Michael - 2004
In this paper, we focus on how European economic integration has affected the synchronization and the magnitude of business cycles among participating countries. We measure, based on bandpass filtered data, the characteristics of European business cycles analyzing to what extent they have become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208453
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Integration and Tax Competition: An Empirical Study of OECD Countries
Hansson, Åsa; Olofsdotter, Karin - 2005
This paper studies the effects of integration on capital taxation in a number of OECD countries. Unlike most previous papers on the subject, we combine key features from the new economic geography theory with the standard tax competition framework. We consider effective as well as statutory...
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Diffusion of Technology and Convergence of Income among Countries
Oz, Sumru - 2014
Theoretical models of growth reveal that either exogenous or endogenous, technology is the main driving force behind the long-run economic growth. Furthermore, in the endogenous growth framework, diffusion of technology is the basic mechanism of per capita income convergence among countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500261
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Patterns in global value chains integration, technology and employment structures in Europe: Country and sectoral evidence
Bontadini, Filippo; Evangelista, Rinaldo; Meliciani, … - 2021
), the 'quality' of such integration in terms of technological capabilities and the structure of employment in European … countries and sectors. We study employment shares in fabrication and headquarter occupations in terms of functional … specialisation and employment upgrading, making two specific contributions. First, we explicitly account for pre-existing asymmetries …
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Economic Integration, Sectoral Diversification, and Exchange Rate Policy in a Developing Economy
Srour, Gabriel - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
The paper develops a simple three-sector model of a developing country with nominal wage rigidity, in which one sector is thought of as the primary sector and the other two are sectors in which the country can diversify. The paper then analyzes the relationship between the market structure of...
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