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Real exchange rate, foreign trade and employment: Evidence from China
Zeng, Xiangquan; Yuxue, Cui; Shisong, Qing; Yumei, Yang - 2011
Coordination of macro-economic development and employment is an essential issue for China's social development, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280727
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Real Exchange Rate, Foreign Trade and Employment: Evidence from China
Zeng, Xiangquan; Yuxue, Cui; Shisong, Qing; Yumei, Yang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Coordination of macro-economic development and employment is an essential issue for China's social development, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283572
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North-South technology spillovers: the relative impact of openness and foreign R&D
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2008
This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268715
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Trade, quality upgrading and wage inequality in the Mexican manufacturing sector
Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2007
exchange rate shock tended to increase within-industry wage inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277010
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Greasing the wheels of international commerce: how services facilitate firms' international sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277455
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The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
relative net demand shock against the low skilled (like the US) during this period. It turns out that only workers with an … educational level below apprenticeship were affected by such a shock. Furthermore, I test whether wages reacted flexibly to this … shock and find that they were rigid, which can explain the relative unemployment increase for this group. Finally, I test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262112
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Inflation Adjustment and Labour Market Structures : Evidence from a Multi-Country Study
Nunziata, Luca; Bowdler, Christopher - 2005
An empirical analysis of the impact of labour market structures on the response of inflation to macroeconomic shocks is presented. Results based on a 20 country panel show that if labour market coordination is high, the effect on inflation of movements in unemployment, import prices, tax rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262222
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The Impact of the Unemployment Benefit System on International Spillover Effects
Beissinger, Thomas; Büsse, Oliver - 2003
labor demand and the wage bargaining process. The analysis of the interaction of shock spillovers and benefit system focuses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262240
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Labour Mobility - An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999
highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262267
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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany?
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262540