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Capital Market Integration and Gender Inequality
Komura, Mizuki - 2018
This study explores the effects of globalization on gender inequality. Specifically, we depict that, in terms of capital market integration, globalization alters the gender gap in wage rates through changes in labor demand for capital-intensive sectors. Consequently, globalization leads to...
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The End of Cheap Labour : Are Foreign Investors Leaving China?
Donaubauer, Julian - 2016
China's government is promoting the shift towards a consumption-based economy since a few years. The explicit goal to significantly raise the percentage of wages in the national household income is integral part of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15). The changes in the economic strategy are...
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European Innovation Dynamics and Us Economic Impact : Theory and Empirical Analysis
Welfens, Paul J.J. - 2015
TTIP negotiations between the US and the EU and it suggests a broader analytical link between trade, FDI, innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032283
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Trade and Capital Flows : Substitutes or Complements? An Empirical Investigation
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2019
This paper examines the linkages between the trade of goods and financial assets. Do both flows behave as complements … macroeconomics, the empirical evidence has remained relatively scarce so far, in particular for the Euro area where trade and … from 2002-2012, to test the so-called trade-finance nexus. Since theoretical models stress that both flows might be …
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Economic Growth and Political Integration : Estimating the Benefits from Membership in the European Union Using the Synthetic Counterfactuals Method
Campos, Nauro F. - 2014
This paper presents new estimates of the economic benefits from economic and political integration. Using the synthetic counterfactuals method, we estimate how GDP per capita and labour productivity would have behaved for the countries that joined the European Union (EU) in the 1973, 1980s, 1995...
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Institutional Integration and Productivity Growth : Evidence from the 1995 Enlargement of the European Union
Campos, Nauro F.; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Franceschi, Emanuele - 2022
This paper studies the productivity effects of integration deepening. The identification strategy exploits the 1995 European Union (EU) enlargement, when all candidate countries joined the Single Market but one â Norway â did not join the EU. Our synthetic difference-in-differences estimates...
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Trade, Wages, and Productivity
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2021
We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and … endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies competition, and forces the least efficient …, our model is well suited to study the impacts of trade integration on aggregate productivity and factor prices. Using …
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Should Easier Access to International CreditReplace Foreign Aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Lahiri, Sajal; Younas, Javed - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
-period trade-theoreticmodel to develop testable hypotheses and then we use dynamic panel analysis to test thosehypotheses …
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Where Are the Real Bottlenecks?Evidence from 20,000 Firms in 60 Countries aboutthe Shadow Costs of Constraints to Firm Performance
Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark; Seabright, Paul - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We use data from over 20,000 firms in 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth offirms. We interpret managers´ answers to survey questions on the extent to which variousaspects of their external environment inhibit the performance of their firm as measuring theshadow cost of...
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Enrolment in Micro Life and Health Insurance : Evidences from Sri Lanka
Bendig, Mirko - 2011
Microinsurance is an emerging concept protecting households from the potentially catastrophic expenditures associated with family related shocks. Therefore, this paper presents evidence on the determinants of insurance participation using probit models on household survey data from Sri Lanka,...
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