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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness : Evidence from Romania
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2010
location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of "dirty" goods. This paper … its competitiveness and decreased exports towards its European trading partners. Our findings do not provide empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141417
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On the Pro-Trade Effects of Immigrants
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2012
the areal unit, we find a positive association between immigrants' stocks and both export and import flows, in line with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104938
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Trade, Wages, and Productivity
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2021
We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies competition, and forces the least efficient firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324989
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The Aggregate Effects of Trade and Migration : Evidence from OECD Countries
Ortega, Francesc - 2011
Two large but separate bodies of literature analyze the economic effects of international trade and immigration. Given that several factors are important determinants of both trade and migration flows, the previous studies are vulnerable to a potentially serious omitted-variables bias,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127335
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Wage Structure Effects of International Trade : Evidence from a Small Open Economy
Du Caju, Philip - 2011
both imports and exports, and iii) examine the impact of imports according to the country of origin. Looking at the export … side, we find (on the basis of the system GMM estimator) a positive effect of exports on industry wage premia. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127724
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The Impact of Immigration on International Trade : A Meta-Analysis
Gen, Murat - 2011
specification, namely a log-linear gravity model of export and import flows augmented with the logarithm of the stock of immigrants … distribution of immigration elasticities of imports and exports across 48 studies that yielded 300 observations. The results show … the data (cross-section or panel) and the estimation technique. Elasticities vary between countries in ways that cannot be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117841
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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
Falck, Oliver - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147865
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Do Non-Economic Quality of Life Factors Drive Immigration?
Lewer, Joshua J. - 2009
This paper contributes to the immigration literature by generating two unique non-economic quality of life (QOL) indices and testing their role on recent migration patterns. Applying the generated quality of life indices in conjunction with other independent welfare measures to an extended...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155606
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A Gravity Model of Migration between Enc and EU
Ramos, Raul - 2013
Due to ageing population and low birth rates, the European Union (EU) will need to import foreign labour in the next decades. In this context, the EU neighbouring countries (ENC) are the main countries of origin and transit of legal and illegal migration towards Europe. Their economic, cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073508
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Female Brain Drains and Women's Rights Gaps : A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2014
In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055895