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different levels of migration frictions. We bring the model to the data for the whole world economy at a 1º times 1º geographic … resolution. We then use the model to quantify the gains from relaxing migration restrictions as well as to describe the evolution … of the distribution of economic activity in the different migration scenarios. Our results indicate that fully …
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This paper examines New Zealand's poor productivity performance from the reform period onwards, from the perspective of economic geography. Rather than employing institutional or free-market versus interventionist arguments to explain New Zealand's low productivity, as is usually the case, the...
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contributions on international trade and the world economy, relevant economic history, as well as Krugman's comments on these issues …
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It has been more than 50 years since the establishment of the first modern special economic zones. During this time, SEZs have been credited with underpinning the dramatic export-oriented growth of China and other East Asian countries. While they remain a controversial instrument, policy makers...
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contributions on international trade and the world economy, relevant economic history, as well as Krugman’s comments on these issues …
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exemplify possible applications related to trade and FDI. By overcoming several data limitations, our new global index can help …
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structural change impacts on inequality for a sample of advanced, emerging, and transition economies. Trade liberalization … found that the process of structural change increases income inequality, while trade liberalization and FDI inflows help to …
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Emerging world countries have experienced over the last two decades a significant change in their trade patterns. Bold … trade reforms have been followed by rapid rises in international trade levels. However, despite these radical changes, we … know remarkably little about how changes in trade patterns are affecting the evolution of regional inequality in the …
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