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The Rise of the East and the Far East : German Labor Markets and Trade Integration
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104067
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East-West Trade and Migration : The Austro-German Case
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021
Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321420
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The Impact of Life-Course Developments on Pensions in the NDC Systems in Poland, Italy and Sweden and Point System in Germany
Chłoń-Domińczak, Agnieszka - 2018
countries. In the paper, we compare the labour market developments in four countries: Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden. There … are pronounced differences in the labour market participation in the four countries: high levels of employment in Germany … and Sweden are in contrast with low levels of employment in Italy and Poland. In the latter two countries, there is also a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926703
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China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011
The international business cycle is very important for Latin America's economic performance as the recent global crisis vividly illustrated. This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages between China, Latin America, and the rest of the world have altered the transmission mechanism of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121741
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098826
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Gender Wage-Productivity Differentials and Global Integration in China
Dammert, Ana - 2013
In the absence of discrimination, there should be no wage-productivity differentials as relative wages should be equal to the relative marginal productivity levels of workers. This paper investigates the role of globalization on the structure and evolution of gender differentials in China by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087424
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Re-Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy
Tausch, Arno - 2009
This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the Re-orient approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155598
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Southern African Economic Integration : Evidence from an Augmented Gravity Model
Warin, Thierry - 2009
This paper investigates the feasibility of creating a common-currency union consisting of 16 countries in Southern Africa. We estimate an augmented-gravity model that includes public deficit, public debt, public expenditure, inflation, and the foreign reserves position. We also integrate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157533
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Hit by the Silk Road : How Wage Coordination in Europe Mitigates the China Shock
Barth, Erling - 2020
Coordination in collective wage setting can constrain potential monopoly gains to unions in non-traded-goods industries. Countries with national wage coordination can thus stabilize overall employment against fluctuations and shocks in the world economy. We test this theory by exploring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833860
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Education, Governance, Trade and Distance : Impact on Technology Diffusion and the East Asia-Latin America Productivity Gap
Schiff, Maurice - 2017
This paper examines the impact of education, trade, governance and distance on technology diffusion and TFP in Latin America – specifically South America and Mexico (SAM) – and East Asia, over the 32 years preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952607