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Trade, Labor Market Rigidities, and Government-Financed Technological Change
Koeniger, Winfried - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This paper contributes to the debate on the effects of trade versus technological change on wage differentials. We propose an explanation of the stylized facts which is based on interactions between openness and technological change because of labor market institutions and government...
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Cost Reduction Effects of "pseudo FTAs" in Asia -Application of a price model based on a multilateral I/O table-
Tamamura, Chiharu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010
This paper examines the repercussion effects on the production cost of industries in Asian countries when some countries eliminate tariffs and import commodity taxes on all imports. This kind of analysis is related in some sense to that measuring the effects of FTAs on economies, and thus may be...
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Estimating the effect of chemical safety standards on firm performance in Malaysia and Vietnam
Otsuki, Tsunehiro; Michida, Etsuyo; Nabeshima, Kaoru; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
such as RoHS and REACH on the production costs and export performance of firms in Malaysia and Vietnam. We find that in … also find that compliance with RoHS and REACH significantly increases the probability of export. Furthermore, we find that … enterprises and firms participating in global value chains generally exhibit better export performance and their costs rise less …
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