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Do Environmental Regulations Effect FDI Decisions? The Pollution Haven Hypothesis Revisited

Yoon, Haeyeon - 2017

In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations … the host country's environmental regulations. Since the pollution haven's effects indicate moving the polluting production … those countries. This supports the prevalence of the effects of pollution havens. However, before we separate the FDI into …

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Three New Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis When Environmental Regulation is Endogenous

Millimet, Daniel L. - 2014

The validity of existing empirical tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH) is constantly under scrutiny due to … environmental regulation on inbound FDI in pollution-intensive sectors, particularly when measured by employment, and (iii) larger …

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Are Environmental Concerns Deterring People from Having Children?

Lockwood, Ben; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2022

Are 'green' environmental concerns -- about climate change, biodiversity, pollution -- deterring today's citizens from …

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The Effect on Foreign Direct Investment of Membership in the European Union

Bruno, Randolph - 2020

This paper explores the impact of EU membership on foreign direct investment (FDI). It analyses empirically how the effects of such deep integration differ from other forms and investigates what drives these effects. Using a structural gravity framework on annual bilateral FDI data for almost...

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Does the Liberalization of Trade Advance Gender Equality in Schooling and Health?

Schultz, T. Paul - 2011

This paper assesses the empirical relationship between the liberalization of international trade and the economic status of women. Although historically globalization is not generally linked to the advancement of women, several recent country studies find export led growth in middle and low...

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Beyond EU-US Trade Dynamics : TTIP Effects Related to Foreign Direct Investment and Innovation

Jungmittag, Andre - 2017

The international economic debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused mainly on trade induced real income gains while the FDI related and innovation induced benefits have been largely neglected, although the EU and the US are leading FDI host countries and...

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Trade, FDI, Migration, and the Place Premium : Mexico and the United States

Gandolfi, Davide - 2015

Large wage differences between countries ("place premiums") are well documented. Theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased migration, capital flows, and commercial integration. All three have increased between the United States and Mexico over the last 25 years. This...

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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...

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Migration, Openness and the Global Preconditions of 'Smart Development'

Tausch, Arno - 2011

In this article, we present a first empirical reflection on 'smart development,' its measurement, possible 'drivers' and 'bottlenecks.' We first provide cross-national data on how much ecological footprint is used in the nations of the world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy,...

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Trade and Unemployment : What Do the Data Say?

Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2009

This paper documents a robust empirical regularity: in the long-run, higher trade openness is causally associated to a lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using: (i) panel data from 20 OECD countries, (ii) cross-sectional data on a larger set of countries. The time...

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