Showcasing data from all areas of the ILC program and other sources, Charting International Labor Comparisons is a gateway to explore how key labor market and other national economic measurements compare across countries. There are links to previous editions of the Chartbook of International...

We introduce search unemployment à la Pissarides into Melitz’ (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms. We allow wages to be individually or collectively bargained and analytically solve for the equilibrium. We find that the selection effect of trade influences labor market outcomes....

[...]In this paper, after first surveying housing costs in theUnited States, we examine why the expensive places have suchhigh housing costs. High-cost places generally have either veryattractive local amenities (great weather or good schools) orstrong labor markets. The Rosen (1979) and Roback...

Viewing the challenges from 3 perspectives: Demandeurs, Targeted countries, Systemic...

Die EU wendet für den Import marokkanischer Tomaten ein komplexes System von Präferenzregelungen an. Die Einfuhrmenge ist zugleich durch Einfuhrpreis- und Zollkontingente begrenzt. Dieser Beitrag zeigt empirisch die Existenz einer Rente im Rahmen der Präferenzregelung in einer Höhe von...

The present paper analyses interactions between the foreign exchange, money and stock markets in Asian Pacific countries from 1999 till 2006. Considering influences on financial market volatility, the estimations are carried out in multivariate EGARCH models using structural residuals. This...

This paper addresses the question of macroeconomic integration in the Asian Pacific region. Economically, the analysis is based on the notions of stochastic long-run convergence and business cycle coherence. The econometric procedure consists of tests for cointegration, the examination of vector...

Die Ausführungen zum chinesischen Zeitungsverlagswesen in diesem Beitrag basieren zum großen Teil auf Interviewinformationen und Materialien, welche die Autorin während einer Forschungsreise im März 2000 in Hongkong und der VR China sammeln konnte.

Since the early 1990s, the Korean economy has undergone a transition from the state-led toward the market-led development. Structural reforms were required to make the transition smooth and successful. The government has, however, failed to accomplish much, due partly to the policy-makers’...

The Japanese Fiscal Investment and Loan Progam (FILP) will be fundamentally changed in April 2001. We are comparing the pre- and post-reform Japanese system with the German system of policy-based finance and we have found that the German system is quite different. In the case of the...