This paper examines the issue of decoupling economic growth and pollution through growth driven by productivity improvements; and the extent to which pollution effects spill over national borders. Focus is widened from conventional production measures of pollution to a consumption accounting...

This paper highlights the way in which workers of different age and ability are affected by anticipated and unanticipated trade liberalisations. A two-factor (skilled and unskilled labour), two-sector Heckscher-Ohlin trade model is supplemented with a education sector which uses skilled labour...

Este artículo analiza la contribución de la competencia de importaciones a la divergencia regional entre áreas metropolitanas de Estados Unidos. Se acredita que el fuerte aumento de las importaciones de bienes manufactureros de China tuvo un impacto significativo en la polarización...

Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 2115

Sozialpartnerschaft nimmt in der EU-Sozialpolitik eine Sonderstellung ein. Seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre gibt es die Möglichkeit, EU-Richtlinien durch Sozialpartnerabkommen auszuhandeln. Die EU-Kommission sieht in der Beteiligung der Sozialpartner einen Weg zu wirkungsvollerem Regieren....

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Transformation ehemals zentralverwaltungswirtschaftlich organisierter Länder aus Mittel- und Osteuropa in marktwirtschaftlich organisierte Volkswirtschaften. Neben dem Ziel der Integration in das Wirtschaftsgeschehen der Europäischen Union...

The young market economies of the states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are knocking at the door of the EuropeanUnion. This led public and economic discussion to a debate on the question, if, considering the relative economicunderdevelopment of the reform countries compared with the...

The main goal of regionalization is the creation of free trade areas and the guarantee for countries to accede to a widened market. Many studies dealing with the effects of regional free trade agreements on trade flows already exist in the economic literature and the explosion of regional...

This paper derives a stochastic endogenous growth model that investigates the impact of European Union integration on convergence and productivity growth. We deviate from the general strand of literature by not only deriving a theoretical model for the effects of integration on the rate of...