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The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid … emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower …-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade …
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with exports to the rest of the world, suggesting that in contrast to trade diversion, trade with Asia complements exports …’ participation in global value chains (GVC) over the past two decades. We find that while overall exports from Africa to Asia are … to diversify export portfolios through exporting to Asia. Each African nation has a distinct main trade partner in Asia …
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We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend - also known as Petty's law - is not...
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We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend - also known as Petty's law - is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350823
-intensive manufacturing exports and foreign direct investment. Better performance in these areas would boost job creation and thus make growth …, modernising product market regulations, developing skills, and reconsidering barriers to trade and investment. OECD simulations … suggest that India would be a major beneficiary were barriers to trade and investment be reduced multilaterally. In the …
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trade contributes to economic growth, this could, in turn, impede economic development. Despite extensive literature on the … migration-trade nexus, there are few examples of policymakers highlighting the role of migration for internationalization. One …
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(trade vs. foreign direct investment - FDI) in the presence of company-wide unions are analyzed. If firms export, they pay … trade costs per unit of the goods exported. If firms invest and set up plants abroad, they incur sunk costs. The full set of … equilibrium outcome: either symmetric (intra-industry trade or reciprocal FDI) or multiple symmetric (intra-industry trade and …
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determine the total cost of offshore outsourcing activities. The debate on the potential future negative employment impacts in …
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multilingual graduate supply, CEE is likely to utilise more value added and quality-driven services. Trade statistics support the … approximation to indentify those sections of service trade, which can be regarded as offshorable. The paper summarises the …
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This paper extends the global sourcing model with informal labor, which spawns reputation and legal costs for violating the rules and regulations imposed on foreign firms regarding accessing informal labor under integration. Under these circumstances, foreign firms, facing a higher cost than...
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