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Trade policy as an exogenous shock: Focusing on the specifics

Greenland, Andrew; Lopresti, John W. - 2021

, we relate inflation-driven changes in trade protection to changes in imports and labor market outcomes in the full count …

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The Shifting Reasons for Beveridge-Curve Shifts

Barlevy, Gadi; Hobijn, Bart; Faberman, Jason; Sahin, … - 2023

relating unemployment and vacancies to inflation, the link between these labor market indicators and inflation depends on … curve shifts between 1960 and 2000. A reduction in matching efficiency, that depressed unemployment outflows, shifted the … Beveridge curve is essential for drawing policy conclusions from the joint behavior of unemployment and job openings. …

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The shifting reasons for Beveridge-curve shifts

Barlevy, Gadi; Faberman, R. Jason; Hobijn, Bart; … - 2023

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The effects of working time reductions on wages, actual hours and equilibrium unemployment

Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2001

This paper extends a general equilibrium model of unemployment and working hours and evaluates the model on a 5 percent …. Furthermore, working time reductions may result in an increase in wage pressure, causing unemployment to rise. …

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Trade and geography: Paul Krugman and the 2008 nobel prize in economics

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry - 2009

The 2008 Nobel prize for economics was awarded to Paul Krugman for three papers -Krugman (1979, 1980, 1991). In this paper we illustrate that, indeed, these three papers are closely connected. We present - a summary of - the papers using a unified framework. Central in the discussion is the...

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Fifty years of urban accessibility: The impact of urban railway network on the land gradient in industrializing Berlin

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Wendland, Nicolai - 2008

As the first to use an archival data set on historical land values of Berlin, Germany, from 1890 to 1936, we exploit exogenous variation in transport technology in order to test the validity of the monocentric city model. Endogenously determining the CBD, we conduct cross-section and...

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Trading inequality? Insights from the two globalizations in Latin America

Arroyo Abad, A. Leticia; Santos-Paulino, Amelia U. - 2009

Trade flows among countries have increased dramatically during the last globalization episode creating new winners and losers between and within countries. This paper revisits the contested topic of the impact of globalization on within-country inequality in Latin America from a historical...

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Rapid Growth in the CIS: Is It Sustainable?

Iradian, Garbis - 2007

This paper analyses some of the main factors behind the recent rapid growth in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the prospects for its continuation. Two approaches are used. The first approach uses growth accounting exercises to estimate the total factor productivity (TFP) growth...

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Black cat, white cat: Lessons to be learned from ASEAN

Lowitt, Sandy - 2019

There is general agreement at present that the Southern African Development Community needs to re-imagine itself and breathe new life into its somewhat moribund structure. The European Union is often presented as the textbook example to be followed by other regional associations - a rules-based,...

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Financial Development and Pre-historic Geographical Isolation: Global Evidence

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice; Cinyabuguma, … - 2017

Using cross-country differences in the degree of isolation before the advent of technologies in sea and air transportation, we assess the relationship between geographic isolation and financial development across the globe. We find that pre-historic geographical isolation has been beneficial to...

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