This paper examines the effects of macroeconomic policy reforms of trade and investment liberalization on gender earnings inequality during the post-transition period using panel data from Hungarian Wage and Earnings Survey and other statistical sources for 21 industrial categories. The results...

This paper presents how APEC has evolved as an institution, the changes it undergoes and the challenges it has faced for the past decades. More importantly, this paper tries to enumerate the roles of APEC in positioning the Philippines in the global economy. Established in 1989 in Canberra,...

This paper empirically investigates whether FDI liberalization affects productivity dispersion, a potential source of resource misallocation. The identification uses the FDI deregulation policy implemented by the Chinese government in 2002, in which some industries became being foreign...

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