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Essays on Offshoring, Wage Inequality and Innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698346
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010395778
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742945
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The bazaar effect, unbundling of comparative advantage, and migration
Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2007
with high-skilled and low-skilled labor. I address wage and welfare effects under flexible wages, and under a minimum wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274459
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The Bazaar Effect, Unbundling of Comparative Advantage, and Migration
Kohler, Wilhelm - 2007
with high-skilled and low-skilled labor. I address wage and welfare effects under flexible wages, and under a minimum wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777491
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Tourism, Jobs, Capital Accumulation and the Economy: A Dynamic Analysis
Sgro, Pasquale M.; Chao, Chi-Chur; Hazari, Bharat R.; … - 2005
resident welfare. A tourism boom improves the terms of trade, increases labor employment, but lowers capital accumulation. The …, the expansion of tourism improves welfare. However, when the traded sector is strongly capital intensive, the fall in … capital can be a dominant factor in lowering national welfare. This dynamic immiserizing result of tourism on resident welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312466
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RCAs within Western Europe
Oelgemöller, Jens; Westermeier, Andreas - 2009
This paper analyses the revealed comparative advantage for six European countries: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK. The results can be summarized as the follows: Italy always had a trade specialisation index which was well above average. Apart from Italy, whose trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003828210
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Analysis of the trade relations between the Republic of Macedonia and the Federal Republic of Germany
Miteva-Kacarski, Emilija; Stančeva-Gigov, Iskra; … - In: Economic review : journal of economics & business 13 (2015) 1, pp. 37-43
Foreign trade represents an important factor for the economic development of a single country and a basic element in the system of forms through which the openness of the economy is being realized. Taking into account the fact that the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) is the most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011329
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A Note on the Balassa Index of Revealed Comparative Advantage
De Benedictis, Luca; Tamberi, Massimo - 2001
It is customary in the empirical trade literature to analyze specialization patterns of countries using Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) measures. This paper explores the pros and cons of the most commonly used RCA index: the Balassa (1965) Index of RCA. After describing the properties of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123421
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Persistence and Mobility in International Trade
Proudman, James; Redding, Stephen J. - 1998
The theoretical literature on endogenous growth and international trade suggests that comparative advantage is endogenous. Sector-specific learning by doing and technology transfer respectively provide reasons why initial patterns of international specialization may persist or exhibit mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062627