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A Meta-Analysis of Estimates of the Impact of Technical Barriers to Trade
Li, Yuan; Beghin, John C. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010
A meta-analysis explains the variation in estimated trade effects of technical barriersto trade broadly defined, using available estimates from the empirical international tradeliterature, and accounting for data sampling and methodology differences. Agriculture and foodindustries tend to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360705
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The Benefits and Costs of Alternative Strategies toImprove Educational Outcomes
Orazem, Peter F.; Glewwe, Paul; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2008
This paper reviews the stylized facts regarding the levels of human capital investments and the returnsto those investments in developing countries. These returns are substantial and are pervasive acrossdemographic groups. Returns are comparable between men and women and between urban and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360810
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Labor Market Policies and Outcomes:Cross Country Evidence for the EU-27
Rovelli, Riccardo; Bruno, Randolph - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We conduct a comparative analysis of Labor Market Policies and outcomes for the EUmember states, for the period 2000-2005. We document the main differences in LaborMarket Policies across EU members, including new member states after 2004...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861414
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Beyond Outcomes: Measuring Procedural Utility
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung <Zürich> - 2004
People not only obtain utility from actual outcomes but also from the conditionswhich lead to these outcomes. The paper proposes an economic concept of this notion ofprocedural utility. Preferences beyond outcome can be manifold. We distinguish proceduralutility people get from institutions as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868515
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A New Labour Force:An econometric analysis of multiple jobholding
Combos, Constantinos; McKay, Andrew D.; Wright, Peter - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2007
In this paper we model multiple jobholding empirically using a specially collected database for the regionof Magnesia in Greece. We find that although income plays a major deterministic impact on multiplejobholding, other factors have a determining the final outcome of the individual’s choice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868602
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Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce andExport Performance in German Enterprises:Evidence from KombiFiD Data
Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
new light on the role of highly qualified employees forsuccess on export markets that is not revealed by the average wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486880
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Why Ex(Im)porters Pay More:Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker Panels
Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
theimport as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid largebiases that characterized the … aim atexplaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non-neoclassicallabor market features …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522216
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Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity:Are Services Firms Different?
Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
evidence that firms with fdi are lessproductive than firms that export.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522217
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Erfolgsfaktoren für das Kunden- und Personalmanagement beiferngelenkten Dienstleistungen - Best Practices bei Hewlett-Packard
Betzler, Dennis; Schumann, Jan H.; Nusswald, Martin; … - Technische Universität <München> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2007
Ziel der vorliegenden Fallstudie ist es, Herausforderungen und Erfolgsfaktoren beim Exportwissensintensiver Dienstleistungen aufzuzeigen sowie daraus Implikationen für das Managementabzuleiten. Die Ergebnisse basieren auf einer Befragung von 15 Mitarbeitern der deutschenNiederlassung eines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869918
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Asia’s Trade Performance after the Currency Crisis
Higgins, Matthew J.; Klitgaard Hertel, Thomas - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 2000
[...]A key observation is that import and export prices roughlytracked each other, with both tracking the behavior of … country’s currency depreciated. For both Thailandand Korea, import and export prices largely followed worldexport prices. For … Thailand, the import and export priceindexes did not seem to have been influenced much by thebaht’s value, while those for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869932