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The African Continental Free Trade Agreement : welfare gains estimates from a general equilibrium model
Abrego, Lisandro E.; Amado, Maria Alejandra; Gursoy, Tunc; … - 2019
In March 2018, representatives of member countries of the African Union signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. This agreement provides a framework for trade liberalization in goods and services and is expected to eventually cover all African countries. Using a...
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Quantifying the Impact of Tradeon Wages : The Role of Nontraded Goods
Tokarick, Stephen - 2002
-related variables on wages of skilled and unskilled labor between 1982 and 1996 in the United States. The results indicate that trade … widening wage gap. Also, changes in total factor productivity had a small effect on relative wages. The major factor behind the … presents estimates of the effect of trade on wages by calculating what wage rates would be under autarky. The results show that …
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Regional labor market adjustments in the United States
Dao, Mai; Furceri, Davide; Loungani, Prakash - 2014
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Regional labor market adjustments in the United States and Europe
Dao, Mai; Furceri, Davide; Loungani, Prakash - 2014
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Regional labor mobility in Finland
Poghosyan, Tigran - 2018
This paper analyzes regional labor mobility in Finland using two complementary empirical approaches: a VAR proposed by Blanchard and Katz (1992) and a gravity model. The results point to a relatively limited regional labor mobility in Finland compared to the U.S. and to EU peers. The limited...
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Regional labor mobility in Spain
Liu, Lucy Qian - 2018
This paper studies the main factors that explain the low regional mobility in Spain, with a view to identifying policy options at the regional and central level to promote labor mobility. The empirical analysis finds that house prices, labor market conditions, and the pervasiveness of labor...
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Immigration Flows and Regional Labor Market Dynamics
Gross, Dominique M. - 1998
The paper analyzes the ability of a regional labor market to absorb growing flows of immigrant workers with declining levels of skills during relatively high unemployment. The impact of the size of the flow and the skill characteristics of the immigrants are analyzed. It is found that...
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Regional Labor Market Adjustments in the United States and Europe
Dao, Mai - 2014
We examine patterns of regional adjustments to shocks in the US during the past 40 years. Using state-level data, we estimate the dynamic response of regional employment, unemployment, participation rates and net migration to state-relative labor demand shocks. We find that (i) the long-run...
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Regional Labor Market Adjustments in the United States
Dao, Mai - 2014
We examine patterns of regional adjustments to shocks in the US during the past four decades. We find that the response of interstate migration to relative labor market conditions has decreased, while the role of the unemployment rate as absorber of regional shocks has increased. However, the...
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Economic Geography and Wages : The Case of Indonesia
Amiti, Mary - 2004
The paper finds a significant shift in the economic characteristics of civil conflicts during the1990s. Conflicts have become shorter but with more severe contractions and a stronger recovery of growth. The overall length and cost of the conflict cycle has probably declined. The stance of...
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