Showing 1 - 10 of 1,605
This paper explores the impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing employment and wages over a period 1993-2006, a … increase in wages in manufacturing industries though the role of export orientation in influencing poor wages has not been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685555
The literature concerning the effect of tariffs on the inter-industry wage premium has not addressed the role of total factor productivity (TFP) in determining both the wage premium and tariffs. This omission invalidates the use of the pre-reform tariff level as an instrument for the change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114505
individual wages and access to international markets. The ordinary least squares estimates show statistically insignificant and …, has a negative impact on individual wages of 0.086 percent. This causal effect remains robust to various sensitivity tests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109614
The impact of trade liberalization on growth and employment is a much debated and controversial issue. In theory, trade liberalization results in productivity gains through increased competition, efficiency, innovation and acquisition of new technology. Trade policy works by inducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111301
Using the methodology developed in Kehoe and Ruhl (2013), I measure the change in the extensive, or new goods, margin of trade between Austria and the ten new entrants to the European Union in 2004. On average, the new goods account for 42% of the bilateral trade flow after enlargement. A time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111320
This paper uses the methodology developed in Kehoe and Ruhl (2013) to measure the change in the extensive, or new goods, margin of trade between Japan and China after China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The new goods account for 15.9% of Japanese exports to China and 22% of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111531
Joining the European Union big opportunities in the international markets have opened for Latvia. Paper purpose is to investigate influence of international integration processes on development of economy of Latvia. In the paper Latvian economic indicators before and after entering the EU are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216353
Joining the European Union big opportunities in the international markets have opened for Latvia. Paper purpose is to investigate influence of international integration processes on development of economy of Latvia. Latvia's incoming in EU increased the amount of received means from structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367975
A stylized Central American trade model is used to demonstrate that trade liberalization can cause an increase in poverty. The paper used a straight-forward 3x3 small-country trade model. In the general case the 3x3 model will not yield signable results. In this paper constraints that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789392
Latvia the rate of unemployment has decreased, the wages are grown, expenses on a labour that has grown, that reduced an … export potential of internal products. EU grants, capital inflow, gain of wages has caused an inflation gain in Latvia …, considering a gain of wages or because of reduction of labour resources; inflow of the speculative capital will stop because of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855257