Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 933
Cover Image
The benefits of linking CGE and microsimulation models: evidence from a flat tax analysis
Peichl, Andreas - 2008
Mircrosimulation models (MSM) and Computable General Equilibrium models (CGE) have both been widely used in policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268789
Cover Image
Modelling the effects of immigration on regional economic performance and the wage distribution: a CGE analysis of three EU regions
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Roberts, Deborah; Balamou, Eudokia - 2009
The paper uses a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse the effects of immigration on three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269548
Cover Image
Trade, wages, and productivity
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2008
We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies competition, and forces the least efficient firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268928
Cover Image
Evaluating Labor Market Reforms : A General Equilibrium Approach
Galdon-Sanchez, José Enrique; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2004
Job security provisions are commonly invoked to explain the high and persistent European unemployment rates. This belief has led several countries to reform their labor markets and liberalize the use of fixed-term contracts. Despite how common such contracts have become after deregulation, there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273739
Cover Image
Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market: How Good is it for Africa?
Co, Catherine Y.; Dimova, Ralitza - 2014
In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333282
Cover Image
Counting Missing Women – A Reconciliation of the 'Flow Measure' and the 'Stock Measure'
Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022
is among children in India and China, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in India and China. We show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296522
Cover Image
Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market: How Good is it for Africa?
Co, Catherine Y.; Dimova, Ralitza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884140
Cover Image
Aggregate savings and external imbalances in China
Yang, Dennis Tao - 2012
Over the last decade, the internal and external macroeconomic imbalances in China have risen to unprecedented levels …. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, whereas its current account surplus exceeded …, the accession of China to the World Trade Organization has dramatically amplified the effects of these structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289985
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283967
Cover Image
Is the Chinese growth miracle built to last?
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2007
, especially those related to having an open capital account, do not loom large in the case of China. In the process of securing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268159