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Hit by the silk road : how wage coordination in Europe mitigates the China shock
Barth, Erling; Finseraas, Henning; Kjelsrud, Anders; … - 2020
economy. We test this theory by exploring within-country variation in exposure to competition from China in 13 European … exposure from China experienced a marked fall in employment, while countries with wage-coordination experienced no such …
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Trade Agreements and Global Pacts, Trade Deals and China's Trade Incursions (Presentation Slides)
Wind, Serge L. - 2018
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Understanding the Sources of Friction in U.S.-China Trade Relations : The Exchange Rate Debate Diverts Attention Away from Optimum Adjustment
Woo, Wing Thye - 2010
China has been accused exchange rate manipulation that has caused large U.S. trade deficits, which have reduced U … imbalances are deeply deleterious to China's welfare almost make it a moral imperative for the United States to use tariffs to … force an RMB appreciation for China’s own good. The truth, however, is that: - The claim that a 40 percent appreciation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014045825
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The surprisingly swift decline of U.S. manufacturing employment
Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K. - 2014
declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … the number of firms engaged in China-U.S. trade. These results are robust to other potential explanations of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229883
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Multilateral Negotiations on MSMEs and the Challenges for the Survival of Labour-Intensive Firms : A Case of China, EU, India and the US
Murali, Kallummal; Khosla, Simran; Singh, Keerti - 2022
, and domestic resource endowment of each product. Developing countries like India and China suggested a higher trade …
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On the causes of Brexit
Ágúst Arnórsson; Gylfi Zoega - 2016
We analyse the voting pattern in the June 23rd referendum on the continued participation of the United Kingdom in the European Union and evaluate the reasons for the results. We find that regions where GDP per capita is low, a high proportion of people have low education, a high proportion is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523724
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Modeling economic, social and environmental implications of a free trade agreement between the European Union and the Russian Federation
Jarocinska, Elena; Maliszewska, Maryla; Ščasný, Milan - 2010
The EU-Russia Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, which entered into force in 1997 foresees the possible establishment of a free trade area (FTA) between the parties. The aim of our study is to evaluate the possible economic, social and environmental impact of such a free trade agreement...
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Specialization, gravity, and European trade in final goods
Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen - 2012
We suggest that bilateral gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of absolute supply-side country differences are misspecified. Building on Haveman and Hummels (2004), we develop and test an alternative specification rooted in incomplete specialization that views bilateral gravity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615086
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Factor content of intra-European trade flows
Zeddies, Götz - 2011
In recent decades, the international division of labor expanded rapidly in course of globalization. In this context, highly developed countries specialized on (human) capital intensively manufactured goods and increasingly sourced parts and components from lowwage countries. Since this should be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009126526
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Trade with Central and Eastern Europe : Is it Really a Threat to Wages in the West?
Polgar, Eva Katalin - 2010
This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing industries) in 25 EU countries over the period from 1995 to 2005. By applying a cross-country and industry-specific approach, it is possible to control for unobserved heterogeneity at...
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