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integration. Her position has faced highly skeptical EU public opinion, particularly in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU …
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We estimate the link between exchange rate fluctuations and the labour input of Canadian manufacturing industries. The analysis is based on a dynamic model of labour demand, and the econometric strategy employs a panel two-step approach for cointegrating regressions. Our data are drawn from a...
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The Brexit vote precipitated the unravelling of the UK’s membership of the world’s deepest economic integration agreement. This paper reviews evidence on the realized economic effects of Brexit. The 2016 Brexit referendum changed expectations about future UK-EU relations. Studying its...
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Does the common currency promote goods market integration within the EMU? We argue that such an effect is likely, but …
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of the effect of the exchange rate on employment in Portugal. We develop an index that allows us to measure labour market … in the estimation of an employment regression, focusing on the effect of exchange rate movements. Our estimates indicate … that employment in lowtechnology sectors, with a high degree of trade openness and facing less rigidity in the labour …
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Over the past decades, models of circular and cumulative causation, based on the endogenous relations between prices, exports, and labour productivity, have lost prominence in explaining economic dynamics. We argue that, in the absence of counterbalancing mechanisms, the combination of...
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African people, by increasing intra-African trade and generating new employment opportunities on an integrated African labour …
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This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...
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countries to additionally include informal employment (chapter 3) as well as the relation between foreign direct investment …, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between …
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Over the last decades Argentina’s living standards have lost ground relative to other developed and emerging economies. Putting Argentina on a path to stronger, inclusive and job-rich growth requires boosting productivity and strengthening investment through wide-ranging structural reforms....
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