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Measuring Costs And Benefits Of Non-Tariff Measures In Agri-Food Trade
Beghin, John C.; Disdier, Anne-Celia; Marette, Stephan; … - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2011
This paper provides a systematic welfare-based approach to analyze the impact of non-tariff measures (NTMs) on trade and welfare in presence of market imperfections. We focus on standard-like measures such as technical barriers and sanitary and phytosanitary regulations. The approach overcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799397
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Training Funds and the Incidence of Training: The Case of Mauritius
Kuku, Yemisi; Orazem, Peter; Rojid, Sawkut; Vodopivec, Milan - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2015
Training funds are used to incentivize training in developing countries, but the funds are based on payroll taxes that lower the return to training.  In the absence of training funds, larger, high-wage and more capital intensive firms are the most likely to offer training unless they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122762
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Do Training Funds Raise the Pace of Training? The Case of Mauritius
Kuku, Oluyemisi; Orazem, Peter; Rojid, Sawkut; … - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2012
Many developing countries have tried to increase firm provision of training by providing subsidies funded by taxes proportional to the firm’s wage bill.  These training funds, however, may backfire if the adverse effect of the tax on training incentives outweighs the positive effects of...
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Are Standards Always Protectionist?
Marette, Stephan; Beghin, John C. - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2010
We analyze the effects of a domestic standard that reduces an externality associated with the consumption of the good … can reduce expected damage associated with the externality by incurring a cost that varies by source of origin. Despite … potential protectionism, the standard is useful in correcting the consumption externality in the domestic country. Protectionism …
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