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Trade liberalisation and human capital adjustment
Falvey, Rodney E.; Greenaway, David; Silva, Joana - 2007
This paper highlights the way in which workers of different age and ability are affected by anticipated and unanticipated trade liberalisations. A two-factor (skilled and unskilled labour), two-sector Heckscher-Ohlin trade model is supplemented with a education sector which uses skilled labour...
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Import competition, regional divergence, and the rise of the skilled city
Quintana González, Javier
Este artículo analiza la contribución de la competencia de importaciones a la divergencia regional entre áreas metropolitanas de Estados Unidos. Se acredita que el fuerte aumento de las importaciones de bienes manufactureros de China tuvo un impacto significativo en la polarización...
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Import competition, regional divergence, and the rise of the skilled city
Quintana González, Javier
Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 2115
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The Perils of Globalization and the World Trading System
Jackson, John H. - 2000
The post-World War II world trading system is now more than fifty years old, and not surprisingly, it has evolved through a number of different stages of development and survived a series of perils. Recently, however, the perils seem even greater than before. The failure of the Seattle...
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A Tale of Two Standards: An Exploration of US GAAP and IFRS
Lagasse, Allyson - 2010
The research in this paper has two objectives. Beginning with an examination of the historical development of how financial reporting standards are set in the United States and around the world, the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board will be...
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Private and Governmental Barriers Affecting International Market Contestability: Current and Prospective Remedies
Manzoni, Massimo G. - 1997
Several interesting developments indicate that world attention is increasingly focusing on a "novel" category of trade barriers: non-tariff and non-border barriers. Following the Uruguay Round (the eighth round of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, "GATT"), scholars...
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Business sustainability and undergraduate management education in Australia
Fisher, Josie; Bonn, Ingrid - 2009
sustainability and the appropriate strategies required to improve business sustainability. In addition, there are international calls … for educators to address sustainability in their programs. The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which … business sustainability is being incorporated into undergraduate business and management courses in Australian universities …
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A Comparative Analysis of Water Quality Sampling Decisions in Aquifers
Rajagopal, Rangaswamy; Kuchibhatla, Ramana - 1995
No single set of sampling decisions is optimal for all monitoring programs. Cost-effective decisions will have to be made in an adaptive framework, constantly changing yet having a basic structure. The major objectives of this paper are to develop and illustrate such a model structure for...
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The Point-of-Use Water Treatment Industry: Expert Opinion on Regulation.
Rajagopal, Rangaswamy; Tobin, Graham A - 1990
Concerns over declining water quality have led many home owners to install point-of-use water treatment units to improve potable supplies. This industry has grown considerably in recent years. However, some questions have been raised regarding misleading advertising and improper claims being...
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Financial constraints, the distribution of wealth and international trade
Amissah, Emmanuel; Bougheas, Spiros; Falvey, Rodney - 2010
Extract: As the Heckscher-Ohlin-Mundell paradigm predicts, in a world where capital markets are perfect and production exhibits constant-returns to scale, while aggregate wealth endowments can be an important source of comparative advantage, their internal distribution does not matter for the...
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