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Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms : The Role of Country Asymmetries

Pflüger, Michael - 2010

This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...

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Cross-Border Mergers and National Champions in an Integrating Economy

Südekum, Jens - 2006

We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability and the social desirability of national vs. international mergers in relation to three different issues, (i) the level of trade freeness, (ii) the possibility of rent...

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Visa Policies, Networks and the Cliff at the Border

Bertoli, Simone - 2013

The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host-country policies and by the size of migrant networks at destination. This paper estimates the influence of visa policies and networks upon bilateral migration flows to multiple destinations....

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Mergers of Equals and Unequals

Smeets, Valerie - 2006

We examine the dynamics of post-merger organizational integration. Our basic question is whether there is evidence of … pre-merger operations decreases turnover. This finding is inconsistent with the view that workers of the two firms … substitute for each other, creating efficiencies from merger. However, that result and our other findings are consistent with the …

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Temporary Shocks and Offshoring : The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity

Mitra, Devashish; Jha, Priyaranjan - 2007

We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country...

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Technological Advance, Social Fragmentation and Welfare

Bosworth, Steven; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021

This paper models the welfare consequences of social fragmentation arising from technological advance. We start from the premise that technological progress falls primarily on market-traded commodities rather than prosocial relationships, since the latter intrinsically require the expenditure of...

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Labor Market Institutions and the Cost of Recessions

Krebs, Tom - 2017

This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance (JSA), on the output cost and welfare cost of recessions. The paper develops a tractable incomplete-market model with search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment,...

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Inefficient Short-Time Work

Cahuc, Pierre - 2017

This paper shows that the reforms which expanded short-time work in France after the great 2008-2009 recession were largely to the benefit of large firms which are recurrent short-time work users. We argue that this expansion of short-time work is an inefficient way to provide insurance to...

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Less Welfare or Fewer Foreigners? Immigrant Inflows and Public Opinion Towards Redistribution and Migration Policy

Murard, Elie - 2017

I examine the effect of immigrant inflows in Europe on natives' individual attitudes towards redistribution and immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of attitudes in a joint empirical framework. Using migration data...

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The Gain from the Drain : Skill-Biased Migration and Global Welfare

Biavaschi, Costanza - 2016

High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration – often called brain drain – has been at the center of a heated debate about the welfare consequences of emigration from developing countries. In this paper, we provide a global...

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