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What are the different strategies for EMU countries?
Artus, Patrick - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 75 (2006) 2, pp. 65-78
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What are the different strategies for EMU countries?
Artus, Patrick - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 75 (2006) 2, pp. 65-78
The answer to competition from emerging countries with low wage costs must be very different according to the affected sector. We need to draw a distinction between manufacturing industry and services that can be relocated and other sectors: consumer services, retail, construction, most business...
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The Contribution of Trade to Wage Inequality : The Role of Skill, Gender, and Nationality
Klein, Michael W. - 2010
claim, we find a significant export wage premium for high-skilled workers in German manufacturing and an export wage … discount for lower skilled workers, using matched employer-employee data. Estimates suggest that the export wage premium to …
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Intermediaries in International Trade : Direct Versus Indirect Modes of Export
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2012
volumes. Export intermediaries such as wholesalers serve different markets and export different products than manufacturing … environment and product-specific factors play important roles in explaining the existence of export intermediaries. These … export intermediaries to overcome country and product fixed costs means that they can more easily respond along the extensive …
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International Trade and Job Polarization : Evidence at the Worker-Level
Keller, Wolfgang - 2016
This paper examines the role of international trade for job polarization– the decline in opportunities for mid-wage workers while those for high- and low-wage workers increase. With employer-employee matched data on virtually all workers and firms in Denmark between 1999 and 2009, we show that...
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Is Mexico a Lumpy Country?
Bernard, Andrew B.; Robertson, Raymond; Schott, Peter K. - 2021
Mexico's experience before and after trade liberalization presents a challenge to neoclassical trade theory. Though labor abundant, it nevertheless exported skill-intensive goods and protected labor-intensive sectors prior to liberalization. Post-liberalization, the relative wage of skilled...
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The privatization of Italian savings banks : a role model for Germany?
Carletti, Elena; Hakenes, Hendrik; Schnabel, Isabel - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 74 (2005) 4, pp. 32-50
Italian experience can really serve as a role model for Germany. Our analysis confirms that the Italian reforms of the 1990s … sector differed markedly from Germany's. Therefore, one may question the transferability of the Italian experience to Germany … diesem Aufsatz stellen wir die Frage, ob das italienische Beispiel wirklich als Vorbild für Deutschland dienen kann. Unsere …
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Is there a common European business cycle? : new insights from a frequency domain analysis
Breitung, Jörg; Candelon, Bertrand - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 4, pp. 331-338
, Austria and Germany. … einige schwache Anzeichen für ein gemeinsames Konjunkturmuster für Frankreich, die Niederlande, Österreich und Deutschland …
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The dynamics of reservation wages : preliminary evidence from the GSOEP
Prasad, Enswar - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 44-50
This paper presents preliminary results from an empirical analysis of the individual and macroeconomic deter-minants of reservation wages, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The longitudinal aspect of the dataset provides an interesting perspective on the dynamics of reservation...
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German wage underpayment : an investigation into labor market inefficiency and discrimination
Dawson, Peter; Hinks, Timothy; Watson, Duncan - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 107-114
reunified Germany. The estimates are initially applied to discrimination analysis. It finds that females have higher …
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