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Trade liberalization, industry concentration and female workers: The case of Egypt

AlAzzawi, Shireen - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-30

The gender wage gap increased significantly in Egypt over the last two decades, while female labor force participation rates have steadily declined. This study investigates the relationship between women's labor market outcomes in the manufacturing sector, the degree of industry concentration,...

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Revealed comparative advantages in the services trade of the United States, the European Union and Japan: what do they tell us?

Langhammer, Rolf J. - In: The journal of world investment & trade 5 (2004) 6, pp. 887-896

The paper argues that measuring revealed comparative advantages (RCA) in international trade in services cannot be straightforwardly compared to RCA in trade in goods. The essential difference is that services are internationally exchanged not only by cross-border trade mainly subject to...

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Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists. A Replication Study of Autor, Katz, and Kearney (The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008)

Stephenson, Corinne - In: Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE) 3 (2024), pp. 1-26

This paper successfully replicates Autor et al. (2008) and extends their analysis through 2022. The extension to an additional 17 years of analysis underscores the original finding that rising wage inequality was not an episodic event of the 1980s. That being said, overall 90/10 inequality and...

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Fifteen years of Poland's membership of the European Union: Poland's participation in the internal market for services

Szypulewska-Porczyńska, Alina; Suska, Magdalena - In: International Journal of Management and Economics 56 (2020) 1, pp. 3-19

The purpose of this article is to examine the changes that have occurred after Poland's integration into the European Union (EU) internal market for services after 2004 considering the legal changes adopted in the EU relating to the free movement of services, namely, the Service Directive. An...

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Export hurdles in practice

Gachet, Emilie; Hunziker, Tiziana - In: Aussenwirtschaft 70 (2019) 1, pp. 61-90

The theme of protectionism has received plenty of media coverage since Donald Trump's election as President of the …) to obtain their views on the issues of protectionism and export barriers. More than 40% believe these do not pose any … challenge, or at most only a minor one. The resurgence of protectionism since 2016 appears to have had only a slight impact on …

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The redistribution of trade gains when income inequality matters

De Pinto, Marco - In: Economies 3 (2015) 4, pp. 186-215

How does a redistribution of trade gains affect welfare when income inequality matters? To answer this question, we extend the [1] model to unionized labor markets and heterogeneous workers. As redistribution schemes, we consider unemployment benefits that are financed either by a wage tax, a...

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A reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - In: European journal of political economy 21 (2005) 1, pp. 1-32

effects. Although our theory contains no money illusion, no permanent nominal rigidities, and no departure from rational …

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What drives Germany's exports?

Frenkel, Michael; Zimmermann, Lilli - In: International Journal of Management and Economics 56 (2020) 2, pp. 99-108

This article reviews several hypotheses that aim at explaining the development of German merchandise exports. Based on cointegration estimation techniques, we examine different determinants for their ability to explain German exports during the period 1992-2016. The estimation results indicate...

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Fertility postponement and labor market outcomes

Bratti, Massimiliano - In: IZA World of Labor (2023)

The rise in the average age of women bearing their first child is a well-established demographic trend in recent decades. Postponed childbearing can have important consequences for the mothers and, at a macro level, for the country in which they live. Research has primarily focused on the effect...

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The labor market in Poland, 2000-2021

Lewandowski, Piotr; Magda, Iga - In: IZA World of Labor (2023)

In the early 2000s, Poland's unemployment rate reached 20%. That is now a distant memory, as employment has increased noticeably and the unemployment rate had dropped to 3.4% in 2021. The labor force participation of older workers increased following reforms aimed at prolonging careers. However,...

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