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The ASEAN Free Trade Agreement: impact on trade flows and external trade barriers

Calvo-Pardo, Hector; Freund, Caroline; Ornelas, Emanuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Using detailed data on trade and tariffs from 1992-2007, we examine how the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement has affected trade with non-members and external tariffs facing non-members. First, we examine the effect of preferential and external tariff reduction on import growth from ASEAN insiders and...

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Regional trade agreements

Freund, Caroline; Ornelas, Emanuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This paper reviews the theoretical and the empirical literature on regionalism. The formation of regional trade agreements has been, by far, the most popular form of reciprocal trade liberalization in the last fifteen years. The discriminatory character of these agreements has raised three main...

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Does regionalism affect trade liberalization towards non-members?

Estevadeordal, Antoni; Freund, Caroline; Ornelas, Emanuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

We examine the effect of regionalism on unilateral trade liberalization using industry-level data on applied MFN tariffs and bilateral preferences for ten Latin American countries from 1990 to 2001. We find that preferential tariff reduction in a given sector leads to a reduction in the external...

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Free trade agreements and the consolidation of democracy

Liu, Xuepeng; Ornelas, Emanuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We study the relationship between participation in free trade agreements (FTAs) and the sustainability of democracy. Our model shows that FTAs can critically reduce the incentive of authoritarian groups to seek power by destroying protectionist rents, thus making democracies last longer. This...

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Do labor costs affect companies' demand for labor? : the effect of overtime, payroll taxes, and labor policies and costs on companies' product output and countries' GDP

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2014

both employment and hours, in individual companies as well as the overall economy. …

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Do labor costs affect companies' demand for labor? : overtime penalties, payroll taxes, and other labor policies alter costs and change employment and output

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021

both employment and hours, in individual companies as well as in the overall economy. …

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The impact of immigration on the structure of male wages: theory and evidence from Britain

Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

of British cross-sectional micro data of observations on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s … of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e … an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series …

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Privatization, entry regulation and the decline of labor's share of GDP: a cross-country analysis of the network industries

Azmat, Ghazala; Manning, Alan; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

labor share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data …

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The volatility of earnings: evidence from high-frequency firm-level data

Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

expected to have only small allocational consequences and that measures of base wages are more useful in drawing conclusions …

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The labor market in the US, 2000-2018 : recovery from the Great Recession is complete, but there are difficult unemployment and wage problems

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2019

As the largest economy in the world, the US labor market is crucial to the economic well-being of citizens worldwide as well, of course, that of its own citizens. Since 2000 the US labor market has undergone substantial changes, both reflecting the Great Recession, but also resulting from some...

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