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WTO negotiations and accession issues for vulnerable economies

Langhammer, Rolf J.; Lücke, Matthias - 2000

they accede to the WTO, the impact of current debates about WTO reform on vulnerable economies, and measures to make it … easier for vulnerable economies to accede to and actively participate in the WTO. The main conclusion is that the benefits … from WTO membership in terms of improved market access for traditional exports are likely to be limited. However, by …

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The new economy and the international regulatory framework

Piazolo, Daniel - 2001

The rapid diffusion of the internet and electronic commerce changes the way business and international trade take place. The new economy poses new challenges to the international regulatory framework, since small distortions due to differing sets of regulations and taxation between countries...

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Services offshoring and wages : evidence from micro data

Geishecker, Ingo (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry information on offshoring. Our results show that services ofsshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit...

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Comparative advantage and skill-specific unemployment

Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2009

We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment effects of trade liberalization. We show that the...

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Unemployment in an interdependent world

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2009

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms. Countries may differ with respect to size, geographical location, and labor market institutions. Contrary to the literature, our single-sector perspective pays special attention...

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Why "buy American'' is a bad idea but politicians still like it

Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2009

When the world economy was recently hit by a severe recession, governments all over the world reacted by initiating stimulus packages. Some countries (among them, most notably, China and the US) tried to put special emphasis on their home industries by including "Buy local'' clauses into the...

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Wage subsidies and international trade : when does policy coordination pay?

Braun, Sebastian; Spielmann, Christian - 2010

National labour market institutions interact across national boundaries when product markets are global. Labour market policies can thus entail spill-overs, a fact widely ignored in the academic literature. This paper studies the effects of wage subsidies in an international duopoly model with...

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Complementary tasks and the limits to the division of labour

Görlich, Dennis - 2010

During the recent decades, multitasking has become a more and more common phenomenon at workplaces. Rather than specializing in a job task, workers perform bundles of tasks. Bundling occurs when tasks are complements. Using individual-level data about job tasks, we analyze which tasks are...

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Creative destruction and unemployment in an open economy model

Stepanok, Ignat - 2013

I develop a model of endogenous economic growth and search and matching frictions in the labor market. I study the effect of trade liberalization between two identical economies on unemployment. I solve for two versions of the growth model, the first one where trade liberalization has only a...

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Private labels and international trade : trading variety for volume

Blanchard, Emily; Chesnokova, Tatyana; Willmann, Gerald - 2013

This paper explores the role of pooled-producer, e.g. private label, trade intermediation in shaping the range and diversity of exports. Direct sales maintain a firm's unique product characteristics ('brand equity'), whereas trade through an intermediary can take two forms - either a wholesaling...

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