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Human Capital Accumulation and Wage Inequality with Scale-Independent North-South Technological Diffusion
Afonso, Oscar; AGUIAR, Alvaro - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2004
This paper analyzes the mechanisms, other than market size, through which international trade of intermediate goods incorporating state-of-the-art technological knowledge affects accumulation of human capital and wage inequality in the North and South. Under North-South technological diffusion,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005063394
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The impact of trade on employment in Colombian
LUNA, Yezid HERNÁNDEZ - DEPARTAMENTO NACIONAL DE PLANEACIÓN - 2011
This article analyses the impact of imports and exports, from and towards the most important Colombiantrade partners (United States, European Union, China, Andean Community of Nations, Venezuela, Brazil andMexico), on employment in the manufacturing sector during 2000 ‐ 2007. We use the System...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391767
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Is there a producer quality wage premium similar to the exporter wage premium?
Hernández, Pedro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Exporter wage premium has been widely studied in the literature on international trade. The aim of this paper is analyze whether there is also a producer quality wage premium at firm level, and if so, analyze whether its origin is similar to the exporter wage premium. In other words, I test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110060
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Politica comercială a Republicii Moldova : cerinţe de import-export în comerţul cu UE
Mincu, Georgeta - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872202
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Incomplete specialization and offshoring across Europe
Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evžen - FIW - 2012
Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has … competing with the role of multilateral trade resistance. Our results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856777
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Incomplete specialization and offshoring across Europe
Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen - Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS) - 2012
Research for evidence on offshoring activities and its driving forces has been done by analyzing gross trade flows … related to offshoring using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of supply-side country differences. We develop a … in parts and components. Our results bring evidence that bilateral trade related to offshoring activities across Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274515
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India's specialisation in IT exports: Offshoring can't defy gravity
Meyer, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
strong comparative advantage. This paper finds that India owes its IT specialisation in part to its reliance on offshoring … of the reasons for offshoring. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617184
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The rise of the East and the Far East: German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2013
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and “the East” – China and Eastern Europe … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240394
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Labour Demand and Exchange Rate Volatility
Broll, Udo; Hansen, Sabine - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2004
The purpose of this paper is to assess under what conditions exchange rate volatility exerts a positive effect on a firm's labour demand. As the exchange rate volatility increases, so does the value of the export option provided the firm under study is flexible. Flexibility is important because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954330
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Labor Clauses in Regional Trade Agreements and Effects on Labor Conditions: An Empirical Analysis
Kamata, Isao - Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University - 2015
his paper attempts to perform an empirical analysis of the effects of “labor clauses” provided in bilateral or plurilateral trade agreements (or regional trade agreements: RTAs) on working conditions that laborers in the RTA signatory countries actually face, using macro-level data for a...
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