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The openness to international trade and capital movements of industrialized countries has increased substantially …. Overall, the empirical findings do not indicate that international trade and capital mobility raise income differences in …
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Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more likely to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize...
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Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more likely to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438358
Juxtaposing qualitative as well as quantitative facts across the broader African continent, the authors explore critical issues compounding developmental woes of the continent at the present. Despite the facts being on the fringes as explanations to the sluggish development of Africa, the...
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firing restrictions. We explore the extent to which international trade alters this result. When economies trade, labor … market policies in one country spill over to other countries through their effect on the terms of trade. A key finding in the … economy only exports 30 percent of its goods. Thus, with international trade a country receives little to no benefit, and …
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productivities in Germany and Eastern Europe grew strongly during the same period, enhancing the joint trade. ‘e "rise of the East …", in terms of rising trade, is likely to have had an ambiguous e‚ect on the German labor market. ‘is paper investigates the … labor markets di‚er and take time, the paper builds on the dynamic and spatial trade model of Caliendo et al. (2019). I €nd …
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In 2005 the German government implemented the so-called Hartz IV reform, which amounted to a complete overhaul of the German unemployment insurance system and resulted in a significant reduction in unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed. In this paper, we use an incomplete-market...
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Three features of real-life reforms of dual employment protection legislation (EPL) systems are particularly hard to study through the lens of standard labor-market search models: (i) the excess job turnover implied by dual EPL, (ii) the nonretroactive nature of EPL reforms, and (iii) the...
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Alarmed by the persistent and large US trade deficit vis-à-vis China and the rapidly swelling Chinese foreign exchange …. Thus, a moderate appreciation of the RMB would not equilibrate the bilateral trade flows or remedy current account …
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since the early 1990s. In areas such as trade, investment, labor markets, technology, and policy coordination, regional …
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