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Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...
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Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506888
In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the jon loss rate is much...
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competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising …-wage occupations due to trade compared to moving from mid- to low-wage occupations. Employing task content information of detailed …
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international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have …
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Pareto optimum, labor mobility (social capital) is excessively large (depleted); iii) trade is superior to labor market …
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migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social … natives. Trade and both migration solutions reduce inequality between the populations of the two countries by the same amount …. In addition, trade and migration are not equivalent if social capital is present: the highest welfare is obtained with …
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In a two-sector, general-equilibrium model with labor-market search frictions, we find that wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the sector with the lower (or equal) vacancy...
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its size and welfare impact, and b) examines the impact of international migration as well as the migration-trade …-South migration raises bloc size and welfare; iv) South-South migration and trade are complements under market access negotiations and …
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Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with industry level information on industries? outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome the potential endogeneity bias as well as other...
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