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International Labor Standards and International Trade

Golub, Stephen S. - 1997

This paper reviews controversies regarding linkage of international trade and labor standards. Pressures for international harmonization of labor standards arise in the context of increased trade between countries with large disparities in wages, and also reflect the history of labor standards....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403361

Labor market regulations in low-, middle- and high-income countries : a new panel database

Aleksynska, Mariya; Schindler, Martin - 2011

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Implications of the Uruguay Round for Kenya

Chandha, Rupa - 1996

This paper studies the implications of the Uruguay Round for Kenya’s own trade regime and its external trading … environment. The analysis indicates that Kenya did not undertake significant liberalization commitments under the Uruguay Round …. There are however, several effects on Kenya’s external trading environment due to most-favored nation tariff cuts, erosion …

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Tackling legal impediments to women's economic empowerment

Christopherson, Katharine; Yiadom, Audrey; Johnson, … - 2022

It is well established that a wide range of legal impediments in countries' domestic laws have prevented women from achieving full economic empowerment, which in turn has negative macroeconomic implications. In many countries, laws often reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women's...

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Trade and inclusive growth

Bacchetta, Marc; Cerra, Valerie; Piermartini, Roberta; … - 2021

This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade and inclusive growth. It examines claims that the rise in inequality in many countries can be attributed to the concurrent rise in trade competition, especially from EMEs like China, spurring trade tensions and...

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Drivers of Spain's export performance and the role of labor market reforms

Salas, Jorge - 2018

Spain's export performance strengthened after the global financial crisis, and exports now represent more than a third of GDP. This paper argues that several factors contributed to that achievement: external demand, supported by greater diversification of destination markets; enhanced export...

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Employment protection deregulation and labor shares in advanced economies

Ciminelli, Gabriele; Duval, Romain; Furceri, Davide - 2018

Labor market deregulation, intended to boost productivity and employment, is one plausible, yet little studied, driver of the decline in labor shares that took place across most advanced economies since the early 1990s. This paper assesses the impact of job protection deregulation in a sample of...

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Job protection deregulation in good and bad times

Duval, Romain; Furceri, Davide; Jalles, João Tovar - 2017

This paper explores the short-term employment effect of deregulating job protection for regular workers and how it varies with prevailing business cycle conditions. We apply a local projection method to a newly constructed 'narrative' dataset of major regular job protection reforms covering 26...

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Market reforms at the zero lower bound

Cacciatore, Matteo; Duval, Romain; Fiori, Giuseppe; … - 2017

This paper studies the impact of product and labor market reforms when the economy faces major slack and a binding constraint on monetary policy easing. such as the zero lower bound. To this end, we build a two-country model with endogenous producer entry, labor market frictions, and nominal...

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Shifting the beveridge curve : what affects labor market matching?

Bova, Elva; Jalles, João Tovar; Kolerus, Christina … - 2016

This paper explores conditions and policies that could affect the matching between labor demand and supply. We identify shifts in the Beveridge curves for 12 OECD countries between 2000Q1 and 2013Q4 using three complementary methodologies and analyze the short-run determinants of these shifts by...

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