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Vietnam’s Trade Liberalisation: Potential Impacts on Child Well-being

Nguyen, Anh; Jones, Nicola - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Following extensive economic and market reforms and more than a decade of negotiations, Vietnam became the latest … world economy will boost Vietnam’s economic growth and contribute to the country’s ongoing transition towards a market … populations, women and children. This paper examines the possible impacts of Vietnam’s trade liberalisation on children in poor …

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Productivity growth in Latin American manufacturing: what role for international trade intensities?

Faundez, Sebastian; Mulder, Nanno; Carpentier, Nicole - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper analyzes the relationship between the intensity of international trade flows and labor productivity for 28 industries in the five main economies in the region (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico)using the Arellano-Bond generalized method of moments (GMM)estimator. The...

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Diseguaglianza, conflitto sociale e sindacati in America

Lettieri, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

A comparison of the 2007-08 crisis with that of 1929 showed its extreme gravity, but it also may have implied that the old harmful mistakes would not be repeated. After four years, the crisis has not been solved and it even threatens to worsen. Neo-conservative Republicans claim that this is...

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Post-Apartheid South Africa: Poverty and Distribution Trends in an Era of Globalization

Van der Berg, Servaas; Louw, Megan; Burger, Ronelle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

South Africa’s transition to democracy in 1994 created new possibilities for economic policy. Economic liberalization brought sustained, if unspectacular, growth that reversed the long decline in per capita incomes, but left its scars in much job shedding associated with business becoming...

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Does export participation affect wages and employment quality? the case of Vietnamese SMEs

Vu, Van Huong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Based on a unique matched firm-worker panel dataset between 2007 and 2009, empirical results show that export participation has a positive impact on wages when taking account of firm characteristics alone. However, exporter wage premium completely vanishes when both firm and worker...

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Is there a producer quality wage premium similar to the exporter wage premium?

Hernández, Pedro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Exporter wage premium has been widely studied in the literature on international trade. The aim of this paper is analyze whether there is also a producer quality wage premium at firm level, and if so, analyze whether its origin is similar to the exporter wage premium. In other words, I test...

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Poverty, Inequality and Trade Facilitation in Low and Middle Income Countries

Nguyen, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Although there are numerous empirical studies on the effect of trade facilitation on international trade and GDP, there have been no studies on the association between trade facilitation and poverty as well as inequality. This paper examines this association in low and middle income countries...

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Critical Review of 'A Simple Model of Firm Heterogeneity, International Trade and Wages'

Atif, Syed Muhammad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This report critically analyses the paper "A Simple Model of Firm Heterogeneity, International Trade and Wages' authored by, Stephen Ross Yeaple. Yeaple (2005) introduces a static model in which ex-ante homogeneous firms are differentiated based on heterogeneity in technology adoption and skill...

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International Trade and Local Labor Markets: Are Foreign and Domestic Shocks Created Differently?

Partridge, Mark D.; Rickman, Dan; Olfert, M. Rose; Tan, Ying - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Despite the attention given to international trade in discussion and analysis of the economic struggles of many regions across the U.S., it is unclear whether international trade shocks impact local economies more and differently than shocks originating from within the domestic economy, thus...

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Globalization and protection of employment

Fischer, Justina A.V.; Somogyi, Frank - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Unionists and politicians frequently claim that globalization lowers employment protection of workers. This paper tests this hypothesis in a panel of 28 OECD countries from 1985 to 2003, differentiating between three dimensions of globalization and two labor market segments. While overall...

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