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Environmental regulation and competitiveness: Evidence from Romania
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010
According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of dirty goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...
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Do non-economic quality of life factors drive immigration?
Lewer, Joshua J.; Pacheco, Gail; Rossouw, Stephanié - 2009
This paper contributes to the immigration literature by generating two unique non-economic quality of life (QOL) indices and testing their role on recent migration patterns. Applying the generated quality of life indices in conjunction with other independent welfare measures to an extended...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271304
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On the pro-trade effects of immigrants
Bratti, Massimiliano; De Benedictis, Luca; Santoni, Gianluca - 2012
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very small geographical units (NUTS-3). Exploiting the very favorable setup offered by Italy's features - the very high number of countries of origin of immigrants ('super-diversity'),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287654
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Stress That Doesn't Pay : The Commuting Paradox
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2004
People spend a lot of time commuting and often find it a burden. According to economics, the burden of commuting is … direct test of this strong notion of equilibrium, we find that people with longer commuting time report systematically lower … this ?commuting paradox?. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262027
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Risk sharing and commuting among US federal states
Jüßen, Falko - 2008
market risk by commuting to adjacent regions. Since commuters own wage claims to output produced in adjacent regions, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268779
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Commuting time and labour supply: A causal effect?
Giménez, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2011
commuting time has any effect on worker's labour market supply. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-03, our GMM/IV estimation … yields a positive causal impact of commuting time on the time devoted to the labour market, with one hour of commuting … between commuting and workers behaviour, since daily labour supply should be considered in theoretical models to provide a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278752
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Ethnic Unemployment Rates and Frictional Markets
Gobillon, Laurent; Rupert, Peter; Wasmer, Etienne - 2013
these factors, differences in commuting distance plays the most important role. In France, though, longer commuting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319593
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Testing mundell's intuition of endogenous OCA theory
Warin, Thierry; Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Janicki, Hubert P. - 2008
This paper presents an empirical assessment of the endogenous optimum currency area theory. Frankel and Rose (1998) study the endogeneity of a currency union through the lens of international trade flows. Our study extends Frankel and Rose's model by using FDI flows to test the original theory...
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Southern African economic integration: evidence from an augmented gravity model
Warin, Thierry; Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Tengia, Optat; … - 2009
This paper investigates the feasibility of creating a common-currency union consisting of 16 countries in Southern Africa. We estimate an augmented-gravity model that includes public deficit, public debt, public expenditure, inflation, and the foreign reserves position. We also integrate...
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The impact of immigration on international trade: A meta-analysis
Genc, Murat; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011
the data (cross-section or panel) and the estimation technique. Elasticities vary between countries in ways that cannot be …
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