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The Impact of Economic Integration on Employment - An Assessment in the Context of EU Enlargement
Fertig, Michael - 2003
This paper is motivated by the idea that the enlargement of the European Union is only one part of an overall process, known as economic integration, which characterizes the involvement of European economies into the global division of labor. Therefore, the paper aims at providing a quantitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261627
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The rise of the East and the Far East: German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in the period 1988-2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed administrative data, we exploit the cross-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283967
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Labor market outcomes of immigrants and non-citizens in the EU: an East-West comparison
Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2008
The starkly different histories and institutions in the eastern and western member states of the European Union (EU) suggest different roles of being non-native in these two regions. In this paper we study the roles of foreign origin and citizenship in the comparative East-West perspective. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268586
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Immigration Policy in Integrated National Economies
Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000
Migration is an unavoidable aspect of globalization. While full flexibility is politically unfeasible, the paper argues … for regulated openness. Migration in the age of globalization should be judged according to the labor market needs of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262379
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Human Capital Investment and Globalization in Extortionary States
Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2001
This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time consistent taxation, similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262447
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Globalization and Human Capital Formation
Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2001
This paper compares education investment in closed and open economies without government and with a benevolent government. The fact that the time consistency problem in taxation can make labor mobility beneficial even if governments are fully benevolent – which is known from other contexts –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262452
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Measurement of globalization and its variations among countries, regions and over time
Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - 2005
The process of globalization is an international economic order which has led to the progressive integration of the … technological innovation also provides impetus to the progressive integration of the nations. The elements of globalization include … economic benefits, globalization also indicates the flow of ideas, norms, information and peoples. There is a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267513
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How do trade and financial integration affect the relationship between growth and volatility?
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Terrones, Marco E. - 2006
context of globalization a term typically used to describe the phenomenon of growing international trade and financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268058
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Review of the recent trends in development economics research: with experience from the federal region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas - 2007
recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the … development in a number area where similar trends are observed. The areas studied include globalization, in-sourcing and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268174
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Global business cycles: convergence or decoupling?
Kose, M. Ayhan; Otrok, Christopher M.; Prasad, Eswar - 2008
globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276108