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Trade and Child Labor : A General Equilibrium Analysis

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Bandyopadhyay, Sudeshna C. - 2005

This paper augments the existing literature on trade and child labor by exploring the effects of terms of trade changes in the context of a three good general equilibrium model, where one of the goods is a non-traded good. We find that under quasi-linear preferences the effect of the terms of...

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Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital

Schiff, Maurice - 2004

Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: i) labor market integration has an ambiguous impact on welfare, and raises it if the goods produced...

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Wage Differentials and International Trade in Italy Using Individual Micro Data 1991-1996

Falzoni, Anna M.; Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2004

In this paper we use individual micro data on workers combined with industry and regional data to study the dynamics of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers in Italy in the period 1991-1996. Being different to previous empirical studies, our data allow us to explore in a...

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Ethnic Networks and International Trade

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004

There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...

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Migration and Diversity : Human versus Social Capital

Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - 2004

This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social capital and find that there are three equilibrium...

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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set

Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...

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Banks and innovation: microeconometric evidence on Italian firms

Benfratello, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Sembenelli, … - 2006

set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990's. There is evidence that banking development affects … the probability of process innovation, particularly for small firms and for firms in high(er) tech sectors and in sectors … more dependent upon external finance. The evidence for product innovation is weaker. There is also some evidence that …

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The catalysing role of in-house R&D in fostering the complementarity of innovative inputs

Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - 2007

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …

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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2008

into account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation … are important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of competition on … innovation. There is partial support for the hypothesis that firms in a more pro-business environment invest more in innovation …

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How much does immigration boost innovation?

Hunt, Jennifer; Gauthier-Loiselle, Marjolaine - 2009

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual …

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