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The returns to schooling or the skill premium is a key parameter in various literatures, including globalization and inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus linking the skill premium to the emerging literature...
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integration, namely, trade volumes, export/trade patterns by product (primary and manufacturing goods), and by destination (inter …
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Is the variation in bilateral trade flows across countries primarily due to differences in the number of exporting firms (the extensive margin) or in the average size of an exporter (the intensive margin)? And how does this affect the estimation and quantitative implications of the Melitz (2003)...
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This paper aims at assessing the impact of migration on export performance and more particularly the effect of African …
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Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), where regional integration of services markets has been linked to thriving regional supply … chains. Drawing on surveys conducted in 2008 and 2012 of applied policies in the key services sectors of ASEAN countries, the … paper assesses the impact of the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services (AFAS) and the ambitious ASEAN Economic Community …
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Using detailed data on trade and tariffs from 1992-2007, the authors examine how the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement has … external tariff reduction on import growth from ASEAN insiders and outsiders across HS 6-digit industries. The analysis finds …, the results imply that the ASEAN agreement has been a force for broader liberalization …
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a research project of the ASEAN Economic Forum, this paper offers a discussion of trade policy in health services for … the ASEAN region. It reviews the state of healthcare in the region, existing patterns of trade, and remaining barriers to …
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for five countries in the ASEAN region. For selected service subsectors and a number of criteria for rules or origin …
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With free trade areas (FTAs) under negotiation between Japan and the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) members and between …
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This paper presents estimates of the relationship between the share of income accruing to the middle class and gross domestic product per capita of economies from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The increase in gross domestic product per capita that these economies experienced during...
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