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Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2020
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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When Banana Import Restrictions Lead to Exports : A Tale of Cyclones and Quarantine Policies
Ko, Chia Chiun - 2014
banana producers accepting losses in normal years, off-set by large profits in years when cyclones destroy a large proportion … of the banana plants because of sufficiently low elasticity of demand. Using the cyclones of 2006 and 2011 as exogenous … have hit and re-planted banana plants have become productive. Combining the elasticity estimates with information on …
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Unemployment Benefits and Immigration : Evidence from the EU
Giulietti, Corrado - 2011
The paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on immigration. A sample of 19 European countries observed over the period 1993-2008 is used to test the hypothesis that unemployment benefit spending (UBS) is correlated with immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates...
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Comparing Inequality Aversion Across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ
Bargain, Olivier - 2013
We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when controlling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086204
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Trends in Commuting Time of European Workers : A Cross-Country Analysis
Giménez, José Ignacio - 2020
This paper examines the time spent commuting to/from work by workers in fifteen European countries, during the last three decades, with the aim of analyzing recent trends in commuting and the factors affecting commuting behavior in those countries. Using data from several waves of the European...
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Financial Crises and Liberalization : Progress or Reversals?
Saka, Orkun - 2019
Financial crisis can trigger policy reversals, i.e. they can lead to a process of re- regulation of financial markets. Using a recent comprehensive dataset on financial liberalization across 94 countries for the period between 1973 and 2015, we formally test the validity of this prediction for...
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Fiscal Sustainability and Demographic Change : A Micro Approach for 27 EU Countries
Dolls, Mathias - 2016
The effect of demographic change on the labor force and on fiscal revenues is topical in light of potential pension shortfalls. This paper evaluates the effect of demographic changes between 2010 and 2030 on labor force participation and government budgets in the EU-27. Our analysis involves the...
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The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union : Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment
Kahanec, Martin - 2014
The eastern enlargements of the European Union (EU) and the extension of the free movement of workers to the new member states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labor market with more than half a billion people. Although many old member states applied transitional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046654
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Productivity and Size of the Export Market : Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004
Wagner, Joachim - 2021
actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317178
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Sectoral Cognitive Skills, R&D, and Productivity : A Cross-Country Cross-Sector Analysis
Sasso, Simone - 2017
We focus on human capital measured by education outcomes (skills) and establish the relationship between human capital, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing and service industries. Much of the recent literature has relied on school attainment rather...
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