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International Trade and Firm Performance : A Survey of Empirical Studies Since 2006

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

The literature on international trade and firm performance grows exponentially. This paper attempts to summarize what we learn from this literature to guide both future empirical and theoretical work in this area, and public debates and policy makers, in an evidence-based way. The focus is on...

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Migration, International Trade and Capital Formation : Cause or Effect?

Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2012

In this paper, we provide an overview of the relationship between international migration and international trade as well as capital movements. After taking a brief historical perspective, we first investigate migration flows between two countries in a static, neoclassical context. We allow for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098128

Isolating the Network Effect of Immigrants on Trade

Aleksynska, Mariya - 2012

Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business networks, and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade. Using cross-sectional data and controlling for the overall bilateral stock of migrants, the share of migrants employed...

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An Injury to One is an Injury to All : Terrorism's Spillover Effects on Bilateral Trade

Doucouliagos, Hristos - 2017

In this paper we investigate whether the effects of terrorism in one country spillover to affect trade in neighboring nations. Using a sample of more than 160 countries from 1976 to 2014, we report robust evidence that terrorist attacks in a nation's contiguous neighbors significantly reduce...

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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2021

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320572

Life Expectancy and the Environment

Mariani, Fabio - 2009

We present an OLG model in which life expectancy and environmental quality dynamics are jointly determined. Agents may invest in environmental care, depending on how much they expect to live. In turn, environmental conditions affect life expectancy. As a result, our model produces a positive...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154479

Pandemic Meets Pollution : Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by Covid-19

Isphording, Ingo E. - 2020

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany … patients (80+ years): higher levels of air pollution by one standard deviation 3 to 12 days after developing symptoms increase … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …

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Wage Structure Effects of International Trade : Evidence from a Small Open Economy

Du Caju, Philip - 2011

In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the impact of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127724

Workers' Views of the Impact of Trade on Jobs

Brown, Clair - 2011

Although public policy is influenced by the perception that workers worry about the impact of trade on their jobs, there is little empirical evidence on what shapes such views. This paper uses new data to examine how workers' perceptions of the impact of trade are related to their career paths,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132056

Real Exchange Rate, Foreign Trade and Employment : Evidence from China

Zeng, Xiangquan - 2011

Coordination of macro-economic development and employment is an essential issue for China's social development, which largely depends on economic expansion, as well as integration into the global market to create jobs. Through the literature review and empirical test, this paper analyses the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120837

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