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Trade in health products : reducing trade barriers for better health

Helble, Matthias; Shepherd, Benjamin - 2017

throughout the world. At the same time, trade in health products is hampered by substantive trade barriers. In this paper, we … present evidence that countries around the world still apply tariffs and nontariff measures that increase prices and limit the … World Trade Organization's Trade Facilitation Agreement as a starting point, can be linked to improved handling of health …

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Trade liberalisation, adoption costs, and import margins in CEEC and OECD trade

Frensch, Richard - 2008

Within a standard gravity framework I explore the impact of country size and trade liberalisation on extensive and intensive margins of imports across broad categories of goods. This allows testing hypotheses from two distinct strands of the trade literature, i.e., vertical integration versus...

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Trade liberalisation and import margins

Frensch, Richard - 2009

's institutional trade liberalisation should - via lowering fixed costs for rest of the world exporters - increase with decreasing …

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Relative wages, openness and skill-biased technological change

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2002

Standard neo-classical trade theory predicts that trade liberalisation should cause a fall in wage inequality in developing countries through a decrease in the relative demand for skilled labour. Recent studies of a number of developing countries, however, find evidence to the contrary. Using a...

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Trade Liberalisation and Import Margins

Frensch, Richard - 2009

's institutional trade liberalisation should - via lowering fixed costs for rest of the world exporters - increase with decreasing …

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Relative Wages, Openness and Skill-Biased Technological Change

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2021

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The impact of trade and technology on wage components

Borrs, Linda; Knauth, Florian - 2016

We use a large sample of German workers to analyze the effect of low-wage competition with China and Eastern Europe (the East) on the wage structure within German manufacturing industries. Utilizing the method by Abowd et al. (1999), we decompose wages into firm and worker components. We find...

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Trade in services : IT and task content

Ariu, Andrea; Mion, Giordano - 2010

In this paper we investigate the determinants of the dramatic increase in services tradability focusing on the extensive margin of the phenomenon. We use balance sheet and firm-level service trade information over the period 1995-2005 provided by the National Bank of Belgium and we merge it with...

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Why Agricultural Technological Transfers to Developing Countries Should Be Deregulated

Gisselquist, David; Grether, Jean-Marie - 2015

transfer and refocusing input regulations on externalities can lead to significant productivity and income gains in developing …

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Does Freer Trade Really Lead to Productivity Growth? Evidence from Africa

Bresnahan, Lauren; Coxhead, Ian; Foltz, Jeremy D.; … - 2016

Theory predicts that trade liberalization should raise average total factor productivity (TFP) among manufacturing … the 1990s, a period of fairly rapid trade policy liberalization, we estimate productivity effects of trade. Our analysis … confirms the well-known association between export intensity and higher productivity of the firm; however, the evidence for …

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