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Ethnic competition and specialization
Kahanec, Martin - 2007
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnic groups engender...
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Building a better rat trap: technological innovation, human capital and the Irula
Terjesen, Siri - 2007
(CDDP), which is dedicated to the improvement of the Irula tribe in rural villages of southeast India. The Irulas specialize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263796
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Economic development and political violence in Ethiopia
Woldesenbet, Ermias; Gebreluel, Goitom; Bedasso, Biniam - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468507
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Impact of institutions on cross-border price dispersion
Schwarz, Jiří - 2011
This paper analyzes the role of institutions in price dispersion among cities in the European region in the 1996-2009 period. An overview of the literature on the border effect reveals that the role of institutions is completely neglected. Using the Worldwide Governance Indicators as explanatory...
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Price convergence in the enlarged internal market
Dreger, Christian; Kholodilin, Konstantin; Lommatzsch, … - 2007
In this paper we investigate the effects of EU enlargement on price convergence. The internal market is expected to boost integration and increase efficiency and welfare through a convergence of prices in product markets. Two principal drivers are crucial to explain price developments. On the...
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Preiskonvergenz in der erweiterten Europäischen Union
Dreger, Christian; Kholodilin, Konstantin A. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 38, pp. 557-561
Länder beeinflusst die Preiskonvergenz auf zweierlei Weise. Zum einen erhöht sich in der EU insgesamt der Druck auf die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601754
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Cross-border price differentials and goods market integration in East Asia
Moon, Woosik - 2013
As cross-border movements of goods, capital, and labor are intensifying, it is likely that goods markets in East Asia will become increasingly integrated. This study investigates the current state of goods market integration in East Asia by measuring the extent of cross-border price...
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Producer Prices in the Transition to a Common Currency
Andrén, Niclas; Oxelheim, Lars - 2006
We analyze producer price developments in the transition from a national exchange rate regime to a monetary union. The focus is on the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Stylized facts witness about an exploding gaps in producer-price inflation during the years immediately following the...
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Changing Paradigm of Indo-Japan Relations: Opportunities and Challenges
Rajamohan, P. G.; Rahut, Dil Bahadur; Jacob, Jabin T. - 2008
vision, most noticeably in Asia, and has broadened the definition of its security interests. As a result, India-Japan … global partnership between them.India and Japan share a special relationship as fellow democracies without hegemonic … and future economic and population dynamics in both the countries mean that India-Japan relations will continue to improve …
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Globalization, development, and mobility of technical talent: India and Japan in comparative perspectives
D'Costa, Anthony P. - 2004
between rich and poor countries. This paper examines the under-researched relationship between India and Japan in the context … themes. By focusing on the export of technical talent, I argue that India could tap its overseas ‘brain bank’ by diversifying … IT export markets, create epistemic networks, meet impending skill shortages in Japan, and induce long-term innovative …
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