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The rise of Eastern Europe and German labor market reform: Dissecting their effects on employment
Walter, Timo - 2021
From the early 1990s until 2005 the unemployment rate rose in Germany from 7.3% to 11.7%. While the unemployment rate … productivities in Germany and Eastern Europe grew strongly during the same period, enhancing the joint trade. The "rise of the East … Eastern European productivity shock. The focus lies on the national and county level (including 402 counties). As the effects …
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German labor market reform and the rise of Eastern Europe : dissecting their effects on employment
Walter, Timo - In: Empirica : journal of european economics 50 (2023) 2, pp. 351-387
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Economic reforms, labour markets and formal sector employment : evidence from India
Shembavnekar, Nihar - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 2/31, pp. 1-42
Development economists generally concur that the implications of economic reform for employment are influenced by an economy's institutional framework. This paper examines the extent to which differences in regional labour market flexibility shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on...
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Assessing the impact of trade policy on labor markets and production
Francois, Joseph F. - 2004
This paper discusses the measurement of production and employment effects of trade policy, and more broadly the effects of economic integration and globalization. First, it provides a broad-brush overview of the ex-post literature linking trade to performance, such as measures of worker...
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International trade and unemployment : a quantitative framework ; conference paper
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - 2013
Quantifying the welfare effects of trade liberalization is a core issue in international trade. Existing frameworks assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. We develop a quantitative trade framework which explicitly models labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341027
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The Economic Impact of Tariff Eliminations in a U.S.-U.K. Free Trade Agreement : A CGE Model with Worker Displacement
Ferry, Jeff; Narayanan Gopalakrishnan, Badri; Mayoral, … - 2021
On May 5, 2020, the U.S. Trade Representative announced plans to negotiate a free trade agreement with the United Kingdom. We use GTAP to model the economic impacts of this free trade agreement, exclusively focusing on the bilateral tariff elimination. We find that a standard GTAP model leads to...
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The Gains from Trade in a New Model from the IMF: Still Very Small
Rosnick, David - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2015
This paper takes a careful look at a recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) Working Paper that claims to find significant gains for liberalization of trade through the World Trade Organization. It is not clear that the reported gains are at all large. The IMF paper shows that multilateral...
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Trade and qualification : linking qualification needs to Germany's export flows
Mönnig, Anke; Zika, Gerd; Maier, Tobias - 2013
disclose the direct and indirect influence of major trading partners on Germany's production, employment, and qualification … Qualifikationsbedarf in Deutschland. Zur Quantifizierung dieser Effekte wird das dynamische makro-ökonometrische Input-Output-Modell IAB …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752731
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Five Essays on International Trade, Factor Flows and the Gains from Globalization
Heiland, Inga - 2017
, and those chapters that are accompanied by an empirical analysis rely primarily on structural estimation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698364
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Five essays on international trade, factor flows, and the gains from globalization
Heiland, Inga - 2017
, and those chapters that are accompanied by an empirical analysis rely primarily on structural estimation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011736433