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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012), pp. 1-39
This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital and goods markets. Labor market imperfections in line with Mortensen and Pissarides (Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Theory of Unemployment, 1994) give rise to unemployment and a channel for the government to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010981404
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Foreign direct investment and search unemployment: Theory and evidence
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 30 (2014) C, pp. 41-56
margin. Whether a country benefits from foreign direct investments (FDI) in terms of unemployment depends on the respective … country's net-FDI, measured as the difference between in- and outward FDI. The link between FDI and unemployment derived in … the model is tested using macroeconomic data for 19 OECD countries on unemployment, FDI, and labor market institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048254
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Trade liberalization and unemployment: Theory and evidence from India
Hasan, Rana; Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya; Ahsan, … - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 2, pp. 269-280
A widely held view among the public is that trade liberalization increases unemployment. Using state and industry-level unemployment and trade protection data from India, we find no evidence of any unemployment increasing effect of trade reforms. In fact, our state-level analysis reveals that...
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Inheritance, Search Friction and International Trade: A General Equilibrium Model
Mazumder, Debojyoti - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In a general equilibrium framework, an economy, with one non-traded final good and two traded intermediate goods, is modeled in this paper. It is shown that even if the economy consists of one frictionless labor market and a labor market with the search-friction, a status-conscious preference...
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Trade and Labor Reallocation with Heterogeneous Enforcement of Labor Regulations
Almeida, Rita K.; Poole, Jennifer P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper revisits the question of how trade openness affects labor market outcomes in a developing country setting. We explore the fact that plants face varying degrees of exposure to global markets and to the enforcement of labor market regulations, and rely on Brazil's currency crisis in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959770
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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital and goods markets. Labor market imperfections in line with Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) give rise to unemployment and a channel for the government to influence markets through institutional changes. Labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643584
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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital and goods markets. Labor market imperfections in line with Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) give rise to unemployment and a channel for the government to influence markets through institutional changes. Labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592483
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Globalization and labor market institutions: International empirical evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 3, pp. 829-842
A widespread concern is that labor market institutions erode in the course of globalization, which, in turn, decreases … employment and wages. By using panel data and cross-sectional data, I investigate the influence of globalization on labor market … regulation. I use the indicators of labor market institutions by Gwartney et al. (2012) and the KOF indices of globalization. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010682518
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Globalization and Labor Market Institutions: International Empirical Evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2013
A widespread concern is that labor market institutions erode in the course of globalization, which, in turn, decreases … employment and wages. By using panel data and crosssectional data, I investigate the influence of globalization on labor market … regulation. I use the indicators of labor market institutions by Gwartney et al. (2012) and the KOF indices of globalization. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627552
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Latvia’s incoming in European Union economic effect estimation
Skribans, Valerijs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Joining the European Union big opportunities in the international markets have opened for Latvia. Paper purpose is to investigate influence of international integration processes on development of economy of Latvia. In the paper Latvian economic indicators before and after entering the EU are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216353