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Is Poland the next Spain?
Caselli, Francesco; Tenreyro, Silvana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
Eastern Europe the employment share of agriculture is typically quite large, and agriculture is particularly unproductive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745276
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Medicines in parallel trade in the European Union: a gravity specification
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Kanavos, Panos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
While recent research has explored the phenomenon of drug parallel trade in regulated environments such as the European Union (EU), or the European Economic Area, little is known about the mechanisms that explain its origin or the role of the distribution chain in exporting and importing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745350
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Was Germany ever united?: evidence from intra- and international trade 1885-1933
Wolf, Nikolaus - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
This paper asks whether Germany was ever an economically integrated area. I explore the geography of trade costs in a new data set of about 40,000 observations on regional trade flows within and across the borders of Germany over the period 1885 – 1933. There are three key results. First, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745395
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A simple model of the juggernaut effect of trade liberalisation
Baldwin, Richard E.; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
This paper posits a formal political economy model where the principle of reciprocity in multilateral trade talks results in the gradual elimination of tariffs. Reciprocity trade talks turn each nation’s exporters into anti-protectionists at home; they lower foreign tariffs by convincing their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928767
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Economic Integration, Sectoral Diversification, and Exchange Rate Policy in a Developing Economy
Srour, Gabriel - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
The paper develops a simple three-sector model of a developing country with nominal wage rigidity, in which one sector is thought of as the primary sector and the other two are sectors in which the country can diversify. The paper then analyzes the relationship between the market structure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825986
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Foreign Ownership and Productivity: New Evidence from the Service Sector and the R&D Lab
Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Simpson, Helen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two issues neglected in the existing literature – the role of multinationals in service sectors and the importance of R&D activity conducted by foreign multinationals. We review...
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Migration, Human Capital, and Poverty in a Dual-Economy of a Developing Country
Masson, Paul R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
The coexistence of urban and rural poverty and migration to cities is studied in a dual economy model where the acquisition of skills is costly and involves migration to urban areas. In this model, both the distribution of innate abilities and the distribution of wealth matter for the migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826021
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Why is Unemployment High in the Philippines?
Brooks, Ray - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
relatively fast employment growth in the past decade. Employment growth was not sufficient to reduce unemployment because of … rapid population growth and increased labor force participation. This paper shows that Philippine employment growth and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826094
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Work Absence in Europe
Bonato, Leo; Lusinyan, Lusine - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
Work absence is an important part of the individual decision on actual working hours. This paper focuses on sickness absence in Europe and develops a stylized model where absence is part of the labor-leisure decision made by workers and the production decision made by profit-maximizing firms,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826222
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What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? New Evidence From German Micro Data
Prasad, Eswar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and … perspective on how reservation wages change over time and how they correlate with accepted wage offers for workers who move from … unemployment to employment. The findings shed light on the disincentive effects of the German tax and transfer system for the …
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