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Effect of NAFTA on Mexico's Income Distribution in the Presence of Migration
Garduno-Rivera, Rafael - 2010
This paper asks how NAFTA affected income distribution within Mexico considering changes in internalmigration. Trade liberalization should theoretically increase the income of low-skilled workers in low-skilled labor-abundantdeveloping countries. Thus, by increasing the wages of poorer workers,...
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Agricultural trade liberalization, productivity growth and poverty alleviation: a general equilibrium analysis
Belhaj Hassine, Nadia; Robichaud, Veronique; Decaluwé, … - 2009
Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models have gained continuously in popularity as an empirical tool for assessing the impact of trade liberalization on agricultural growth, poverty and income distribution. Conventional models ignore however the channels linking technical change in...
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Topics in dynamic macroeconomic theory: on the causes and consequences of income growth and uncertainty
Bauer, Christian - 2008
they move back and forth between employment and unemployment, so that their labor income fluctuates stochastically due to … benefits across the unemployment spell if individuals have access to the capital market, this framework is used to prove that … functions, this chapter contributes substantially to the theory of optimal saving under uncertainty. It is proven that a …
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The Geography of New Manufacturing Technology: Implications for the Nonmetropolitan South.
McGranahan, David A. - 1999
Despite the growth in services. manufacturing remains an essential part of the nonmetropolitan South's economy, responsible for 25 percent of total personal earnings. But loweducation nonmetropolitan areas, which gained more than their share of manufacturing jobs in the 1970s and 1980s, lost...
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The effects of technical and organizational change on labor markets
Gärtner, Dennis - 2001
A new strand of literature has recently sought to investigate possible links between technological changes, observed modifications to firms' organizational structure and the evolution of the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers. After a brief overview of such approaches, this essay...
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Economic internationalisation and the distribution of income : a comparison of the cases of Germany and the U.S.
Wacker, Ulrich - 2002
ofinternational trade theory. Focusing on general equilibrium frameworks stems from the insight that economicinternationalisation in … market issues established by human capital theory with the general equilibrium-leddebate on trade and the functional … modelling involuntary unemployment, thus applicable to the German case.Moreover, despite the clearcut implications of the flip …
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The Three Faces of Trade Liberalization: Unilateral, Preferential, and Multilateral
KARACAOVALI, BAYBARS - 2006
There is a growing number of studies that investigate the effect of trade liberalization on productivity and nearly all assume that trade policy is independently determined of productivity, hence it is exogenous. I show that this assumption is generally invalid both theoretically and...
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Join the Leader, Imitate or Follow: Evolutionary Stable Strategies in the Commons
Schott, Stephan - 2010
"We develop an evolutionary game theory model for a limited access common pool resource. With full disclosure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468354
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Analyzing Potential Effects of Preferential Liberalization in Some Asian Emerging Economies
School of Economics and Finance
BIMSTEC, a regional grouping of South and Southeast Asian countries, is heading towards an FTA for greater economic integration. The present paper examines the ex ante effects of the iniative by adopting SMART and GTAP models. Based on estimated export supply elasticity, the results of SMART...
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Preferential Tariffs, WTO and Developing Countries: Do the Gains from Multilateral Market Access Outweigh Preferential Access?
Elbehri, Aziz; Wainio, John - 2006
WTO trade negotiations on market access follow the MFN treatment. However, an increasing share of trade falls under preferential regimes. For agriculture, trade liberalization analyses have showed that the impact on developing countries (DC) is not uniform, partly from omitting preferences. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442468