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In the last few decades, international trade has expanded not only between industrialised countries, but also between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the...
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This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched …
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inequality in Belgium. Building on the model of Lee (1999) and the critique by Autor, Manning and Smith (2014), we find that … minimum wage increases in Belgium cause a two-sided compression of the wage distribution. Using wage indexation as a natural …
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sectors in Belgium, Denmark, Spain and Portugal. Our methodology follows the approach recently developed for the International …
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Belgium, we also find that offshoring is negatively related to the intensity of wage markups measured by workers' bargaining …
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represents 6 % of Belgium's domestic employment and 10.6 % of the country's gross domestic product. By means of statistical …
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bilateral trade between Belgium and its main trading partners. I find that import and export markets have specific dynamics and … the UK in comparison to Belgium's' main neighboring countries. The impact of uncertainties is more pronounced in larger …
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ports rose by 7.3% from € 18 052 million to € 19 368 million (current prices) or roughly 4.4% of Belgium's GDP. All ports …-time equivalent jobs rose by 0.8%, from 115 401 to 116 311 or approximately 2.8% of Belgium's total domestic employment. All ports … Antwerp. As a supplier to both China and the United States, Belgium is indirectly involved in trade between the two countries …
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Temporal distribution of individual price changes is of crucial importance for business cycle theory and for the micro-foundations of price adjustment. While it is routinely assumed that price changes are staggered over time, both theory and evidence are ambiguous. We use a large Belgian data...
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Belgium. Both imports and exports appear to be highly concentrated among few firms and seem to have become more so over time …
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