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Trade, Technology and Labour Markets: Empirical Controversies in the Light of the Jones Model
Pflüger, Michael - 2001
The deterioration of the income and employment position of unskilled workers in the OECD area since the 1980s is a well-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated by two competing hypotheses, "North-South Trade" or "globalisation" and technological progress....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262529
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Trade, Technology and Labour Markets - Empirical Controversies in the Light of the Jones Model
Pflüger, Michael - 2003
The deterioration of the income and employment position of unskilled workers in the OECD since the 1980s is a well-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated by two competing hypotheses, "North-South Trade" ("globalisation") and technological progress. Several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260654
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Multinational location decisions and the impact on labour markets
Gaston, Noel; Nelson, Douglas - 2001
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown far more rapidly than trade during the last two decades. As with the other prominent features of globalisation, FDI is controversial. The impact of FDI on labour markets has been of growing concern, particularly, for source countries. The deterioration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323598
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National Standards and International Trade
Ganslandt, Mattias; Markusen, James R. - 2001
exporters entering new markets, and may have a particularly high impact on firms seeking to export from developing countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334822
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Impact of Technical Barriers to Trade on Argentine Exports and Labor Markets
Sánchez, Gabriel; Alzúa, María Laura; Butler, Inés - 2008
reduction in export shares due to an increase in standard stringency. Moreover, there is an increase in the skill ratio for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429285
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A further examination of the export-led growth hypothesis
Herzer, Dierk - 2010
This paper challenges the common view that exports generally contribute more to GDP growth than a mere change in export … volume, as the export-led growth hypothesis predicts. Applying heterogeneous panel cointegration techniques to a production … function model with non-export GDP as the dependent variable, we find for a sample of 45 developing countries that: (i) exports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281816
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A further examination of the export-led growth hypothesis
Dreger, Christian; Herzer, Dierk - 2011
This paper challenges the common view that exports generally contribute more to GDP growth than a pure change in export … volume, as the export-led growth hypothesis predicts. Applying panel cointegration techniques to a production function with … non-export GDP as the dependent variable, we find for a sample of 45 developing countries that: (i) exports have a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286623
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World trade patterns and prices: The role of productivity and quality heterogeneity
Benedetti Fasil, Cristiana; Borota, Teodora - 2010
proxy for quality, recent empirical literature identifies a positive relation between income per capita and both export and … efficiencies result in a price distribution generating different consumption bundles and the observed export and import prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321451
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Environmental and food safety standards in the context of trade liberalization: Issues and options
Grote, Ulrike; Kirchhoff, Stefanie - 2001
issues leading to frictions of different country groups under the World Trade Organization (WTO). This discussion paper aims …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323643
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The minimum wage, turnover, and the shape of the wage distribution
Brochu, Pierre; Green, David A.; Lemieux, Thomas; … - 2023
This paper proposes an empirical approach to decompose the distributional effects of minimum wages into effects for workers moving out of employment, workers moving into employment, and workers continuing in employment. We estimate the effects of the minimum wage on the hazard rate for wages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480639