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Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Sectoral and Macroeconomic Perspectives for Germany, the EU and the US

Irawan, Tony; Welfens, Paul J. J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The EU and the US have started negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) which could bring a considerable increase of exports and output as well as changes in the composition of output and employment. Thus export simulation studies in combination with...

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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century

Thomas, Desmond; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; … - Inter-American Development Bank

The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...

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Trade and Labor Outcomes in Latin America's Rural Areas: A Cross-Household Surveys Approach

Gasparini, Leonardo; Gutiérrez, Federico; Porto, Guido G. - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2005

This paper explores the potential link between trade and labor outcomes in rural areas in Latin America by estimating …. We find a significant positive association between labor outcomes in rural areas and some measures of international trade … higher wages and labor income in rural areas, in particular for those workers located in the bottom quantiles of the …

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NAFTA, Trade, and Development

Blecker, Robert A.; Esquivel, Gerardo - Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UC San Diego - 2010

In this chapter, we analyze the expectations and the realities about the economic impact of NAFTA on Mexico in terms of economic convergence, trade, investment, employment, wages, and income distribution. We show that NAFTA has basically failed to fulfill the promise of closing the Mexico-U.S....

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The Road to ASEAN Financial Integration: A Combined Study on Assessing the Financial Landscape and Formulating Milestones for Monetary and Financial Integration in ASEAN

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

This paper provides a summary assessment of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on the state of financial integration in the region, with inputs from the Asian Development Bank regional technical assistance project Combined Studies on Assessing the Financial Landscape and...

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Greasing the Wheels of Trade: A Profile of the Dutch Transaction Sector***

Dalen, Hendrik; Vuuren, Aico - In: De Economist 153 (2005) 2, pp. 139-165

How many resources does a nation spend on transactions costs to ‘grease the wheels of trade’? To examine this question the Dutch economy is used as a case study. The Netherlands are known as a nation of traders and this image was derived in the seventeenth century from successes in long...

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North-South trade and basic needs

Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1990

engine of growth for the South if that region specializes in labor-intensive products. The South's export sector must be … carefully balanced with other domestic sectors to avoid harming the economy as a whole. Any excessive expansion of labor …

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Minimum wages and firm employment: evidence from China

Huang, Yi; Loungani, Prakash; Wang, Gewei - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - 2014

enforcement of China’s minimum wage in 2004 has since amplified this heterogeneity, which implies that labor regulation may reduce … employment relationship in a monopolistic labor market. …

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The Decline of the U.S. Labor Share

Elsby, Michael; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Ayseful - In: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 47 (2013) 2 (Fall), pp. 1-63

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Trade and Wages, Reconsidered

Krugman, Paul R. - In: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 39 (2008) 1 (Spring), pp. 103-154

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