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Are women important for economic development? : an evidence on women's participation in labor market and their contribution to economic growth in 83 world countries

Lechman, Ewa; Okonowicz, Anna - 2013

A kind of gender revolution is passing through various countries in various continents. By being offered free access to … assess the role of gender equity and uniquely women entrepreneurship in the process of socio-economic development. Implying a … set of variables, treated as proxies of gender equality and women entrepreneurship, we estimate their coherence with socio …

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Global value chains and labour markets - wages, employment or both: input-output aproach

Szymczak, Sabina; Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna - 2019 - This version: 29 November 2019

This article examines the overall effect of global value chains (GVCs) on labour market outcomes, namely wages and labour demand. The analysis exploits the World Input-Output Database (WIOD, 2016 release) covering 43 countries and 54 sectors from 2000 to 2014. GVC involvement is measured by the...

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Exposure to international crises : trade vs. financial contagion

Grant, Everett - 2016

I identify new patterns in countries' economic performance over the 2007-2014 period based on proximity through distance, trade, and finance to the US subprime mortgage and Eurozone debt crisis areas. To understand the causes of the cross-country variation, I develop an open economy model with...

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Gross exports versus value added exports : determinants and policy implications for manufacturing sectors in selected cee countries

Olczyk, Magdalena; Kordalska, Aleksandra - 2016

The main objective of this paper is to assess the impact of selected determinants on both exports in value added and exports in gross terms for seven CEE economies, based on 13 manufacturing subsectors and for the period 1995-2011. The results of the analysis show a substantial decrease in...

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Home bias in trade within China : the role of trust

Li, Zilong - 2025

The home bias is a well-documented phenomenon highlighting how administrative borders hinder economic transactions. This paper estimates the magnitude of China's provincial border effect using inter-provincial and intra-provincial trade data, with a particular focus on the role of trust in...

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Product quality perception of former centrally planned EU countries' imports and exports

Merella, Vincenzo; Taušer, Josef - 2022

After Comeconís dissolution, agentsí lack of experience in product differentiation could have triggered demand-side mechanisms affecting trade flows between the two sides of the fallen Iron Curtain. Specifically, producers from a block of countries might have faced a quality perception gap...

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Brexit had no measurable effect on Irish exporters

Elsner, Benjamin; Flaherty, Eoin T.; Haller, Stefanie - 2024 - This version: August 15, 2024

We study the impact of the Brexit referendum on Irish exporters to the UK. The referendum triggered a sharp devaluation of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK and the EU. Using administrative data on the universe of...

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International and domestic border effects in China : multilateral resistances, trade substitution patterns and linguistic differences

Li, Zilong - 2025

I conduct a comprehensive analysis of China's international and domestic border effects. My results confirm the negative impact of administrative borders on exports. In my analysis, I account for multilateral resistance terms, which were omitted in previous relevant studies. My findings show...

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Environmental abatement and intergenerational distribution

Bovenberg, Ary Lans; Heijdra, Ben J. - 2000

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Last minute policies and the incumbency advantage

Manzoni, Elena; Penczynski, Stefan P. - 2014

This paper models a purely informational mechanism behind the incumbency advantage. In a two-period electoral campaign with two policy issues, a specialized incumbent and an unspecialized, but possibly more competent challenger compete for election by voters who are heterogeneously informed...

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