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Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth
Poschke, Markus - 2021
endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It is consistent with recent evidence on firm dynamics and on the … importance of reallocation for productivity growth. In the model, growth is driven by selection among heterogeneous incumbent … continuing firms raises growth by promoting selection. Also charging them to exiting firms is akin to an exit tax, hampers …
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Moldova's trade with agri-food productson international markets
Cimpoieş, Liliana - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 85-94). 2021
This paper examines the transformations that occurred in Moldova'sforeign trade on international markets, with focus on agricultural and food commodities. The research includes the analysis of Moldova's foreign trade activity with agricultural and food commodities, the changes that occurred in...
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The conflicting ways to dissect intra-industry trade
Gnidchenko, Andrey A. - 2019
Theoretical literature states that intra-industry trade (IIT) should be divided into horizontal and vertical flows (or trade in products with homogeneous and heterogeneous quality) that are influenced by different factors. Yet, the economists are still not sure about the proportion between...
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Rising concentration and wage inequality
Cortes, Guido Matias; Tschopp, Jeanne - 2020
Wage inequality has risen in many countries over recent decades. At the same time, production has become increasingly concentrated in a small number of firms. In this paper, we show that these two phenomena are linked. Theoretically, we show that shocks that increase concentration will also lead...
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Intra-Industry Trade between CESEE Countries and the EU15
Dautović, Ernest - 2014
The rapid increase in intra-industry trade (IIT) between the EU15 and Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European (CESEE) countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union indicates a structural change in the nature of trade in CESEE and a new process of transition and real convergence to the EU....
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International trade and the position of European low-skilled labour
Jansen, Marion - 2000 - Manuscript date : November 2000
This paper presents a discussion of the potential channels through which international trade affects the position of low skilled workers in the European Union. After an analysis of the European Union's trade flows showing the predominant role of intra-industry trade with other industrialised...
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Chinese Bilateral Intra-Industry Trade with Her Major Trading Partners : A Case Study of Japan, Korea, United States, European Union, Hong Kong and Taiwan
Bin, Tang - 2017
The purpose of this paper is to examine the features and determinants of Chinese intra-industry trade during the 1992-2010 transition periods for China's primary trade partners. We disentangle total intra-industry trade into vertical intra-industry trade and horizontal intra-industry trade,...
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Territorial cooperation and socio-economic development in the Old EU , New EU and Non EU
Topaloglu, Lefteris; Cupcea, Victor; Kallioras, Dimitris; … - 2012
Territorial cooperation, taken as collaboration "beyond national boundaries", among administrative bodies and/or political actors, generally offers the ground for functional cooperation towards problem-solving and challenge-tackling, along with the exploitation of the local and regional...
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Trade, governance and income convergence in the European Union : evidence on the "theory of relative backwardness"
Jena, Devasmita; Barua, Alokesh - In: Research in globalization 2 (2020), pp. 1-11
At the core of the formation of the European Union (EU) in 1993 was the economic goal to create a European Common Market to ensure freer trade and perhaps to create an egalitarian Europe. The post-1993 period saw the biggest enlargement of the EU to date from a meagre 3 member countries...
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Trading Costs, the Expansion of Trade and Economic Growth in Pre-Industrial Europe
Kohn, Meir - 2001
In pre-industrial Europe, growth was driven by the expansion of trade, and the expansion of trade was driven by falling trading costs. This paper discusses the mechanisms linking these processes: profit-seeking behavior by merchants, changes in the organization of production, technological...
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