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This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean …
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of the banana plants because of sufficiently low elasticity of demand. Using the cyclones of 2006 and 2011 as exogenous … events, we identify the elasticity of demand for bananas in Australia to be around -0.5. We indeed find limited evidence for …
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This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that … produced an unprecedentedly large shock to the UK exchange rate. In the 24 hours in June 2016 during which the UK electorate … occurred in any of the world's four major currencies since the collapse of Bretton Woods. Exploiting this variation, the paper …
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) approach is used to explore this asymmetry. The use of an asymmetric error correction model with asymmetric cointegration …
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This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by …
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How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? The recent backlash against globalization renders this question extremely topical. Yet, most previous work has looked for political effects of aggregate trade flows without decomposing into particular types of...
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This paper analyses the impact of the business cycle on labour market dynamics in EU member states and the US during the first decade of the 21st century. Using unique measures of labour market flows constructed from worker-level micro data, we examine to what extent macro shocks were...
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Contrary to most existing studies of the literature that assumed that the effects of real exchange rate (RE) misalignment on trade flows are symmetric, this paper considers a more general and realistic framework allowing for possible asymmetric effects. We use monthly time-series data over the...
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This paper aims to estimate the price and income elasticities of the demand for essential commodities in Cote d …), we analyse price effects on the demand for groups of commodities by exploiting a relationship between unit values and …
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general trend towards increased employment flexibility. Yet to this day, it remains an open question what drives the demand …
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