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Trade and Employment : Stylized Facts and Research Findings
Hoekman, Bernard; Winters, L. Alan - 2014
the subset of the literature focusing on trade policy and integration into the world economy. Although in the longer run …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063033
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Digital Trade in MENA : Regulatory Readiness Assessment
Daza Jaller, Lillyana Sophia - 2020
Middle East and North Africa countries and 20 comparator countries around the world, this paper shows that the Middle East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838264
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Some Simple Analytics of Trade and Labor Mobility
Artuc, Erhan - 2018
This paper studies a simple, tractable model of labor adjustment in a trade model that allows researchers to analyze the economy's dynamic response to trade liberalization. Since it is a neoclassical market-clearing model, duality techniques can be employed to study the equilibrium and, despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937684
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Latin American Growth : A Trade Perspective
de la Torre, Augusto - 2019
down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865507
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Trade Policy and Wage Inequality : A Structural Analysis with Occupational and Sectoral Mobility
Artuc, Erhan - 2017
A number of authors have argued that a worker's occupation of employment is at least as important as the worker's industry of employment in determining whether the worker will be hurt or helped by international trade. This paper investigates the role of occupational mobility on the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974997
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Trade Policies, Investment Climate, and Exports Across Countries
Seker, Murat - 2017
There is a large body of research that explores international trade as a source of the dispersion in income levels and growth performances across countries. The trade liberalization policies undertaken between 1950 and 2006 led to an almost 30 fold growth in the volume of international trade....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976019
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How Integrated is SADC? Trends in Intra-Regional and Extra-Regional Trade Flows and Policy
Behar, Alberto - 2017
Do Southern African Development Community countries trade enough with each other and with the rest of the world …? Although its share of world trade has fallen, appropriate benchmarking shows that, controlling for gross domestic product and … each other than they do with the rest of the world. In this sense, and contrary to stylized fears, the Southern African …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976060
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International Tradability Indices for Services
van der Marel, Erik - 2017
This paper uses a theoretically grounded model of international trade to estimate the cross-border tradability of services. The resulting indices cover up to 99 countries and ten sectors. The results show that information and communications technology capital and legal institutions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973741
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The Doing Business Indicators, Economic Growth and Regulatory Reform
Hanusch, Marek - 2017
Improving the investment climate is among the top priorities in development. The World Bank Group's Doing Business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975046
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The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy
Bown, Chad P. - 2018
represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …
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