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This paper is about the impact of globalisation on (low-skilled) labour. We build a new economic geography model in which two types of labour (low and high-skilled) are distinguished and in which, due to wage rigidities, unemployment may arise. We also introduce two types of transportation costs...
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In this chapter, we provide an overview of the relationship between international migration and international trade as well as capital movements. We start out by identifying key issues through a brief comparison between modern migration and the mass migration of the nineteenth century, followed...
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This study provides an ex-ante analysis of the welfare effect from the improvement of border road infrastructure in … local prices of imported rice taking into consideration the simulated price changes effect on household welfare across … rural than urban households. Such policies would likely produce larger welfare gains for poorer households than richer …
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equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 … general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and heterogeneous across members, and relatively small … gain in terms of welfare, due to beneficial terms-of-trade effects. …
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We quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive … more. Using these estimates, we simulate the general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and … effects from joining GATT/WTO can still gain in terms of welfare, due to lower import prices and higher export demand. …
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We quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive … more. Using these estimates, we simulate the general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and … effects from joining GATT/WTO can still gain in terms of welfare, due to lower import prices and higher export demand. …
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This paper analyzes the causes and consequences of regional exhaustion of intellectual property, a policy regime under which a set of countries permit parallel imports from one another but not from the rest of the world. A three-country model is developed in which two high-income countries...
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hence typically reduce welfare. In this paper we consider the use of ‘tax-and-subsidise’ instead of ‘tax-and-spend’ policies … subsidies and show that, for a small open economy, positive tax and subsidy rates exist which maximise welfare, rendering no …
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and sufficient condition for replacing foreign aid by credit to be welfare improving. …
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commodity terms of trade, which in turn affects capital inflows and the price of imported capital. The welfare effect of …
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