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Is Germany a hub of Factory Europe for CEE countries? : the sink approach in GVC decomposition

Kordalska, Aleksandra; Olczyk, Magdalena - 2019

The goal of the paper is to decompose gross exports/imports to/from Germany for seven selected economies in Central and … identify the role of German in absorbing, reflecting, and redirecting CEE trade. We use a gross trade decomposition proposed by …

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CEE trade in services : value added versus gross terms approaches

Kordalska, Aleksandra; Olczyk, Magdalena - 2018

productivity and highly-skilled and medium-skilled workers for growth in services trade. Exports of services are also supported by …This paper aims to assess the impact of determinants on service exports in both value added terms and in gross terms … the determinants are fairly similar when exports are measured in value added terms or in gross terms, however the strength …

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Gross exports versus value added exports : determinants and policy implications for manufacturing sectors in selected cee countries

Olczyk, Magdalena; Kordalska, Aleksandra - 2016

The main objective of this paper is to assess the impact of selected determinants on both exports in value added and … exports in gross terms for seven CEE economies, based on 13 manufacturing subsectors and for the period 1995-2011. The results …) are fairly similar when exports are measured in value added or in gross terms. The results indicate a greater impact of …

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The formal sector wage premium and firm size for self-employed workers

Bargain, Olivier; El Badaoui, Eliane; Kwenda, Prudence; … - 2013

We develop a model where workers may enter self-employment or search for jobs as employees and where there is heterogeneity across workers’ managerial ability. Workers with higher skills will manage larger firms while workers with low managerial ability will run smaller firms and will be in...

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The formal sector wage premium and firm size for self-employed workers

Bargain, Olivier; El Badaoui, Eliane; Kwenda, Prudence; … - 2012

We develop a model where workers may enter self-employment or search for jobs as employees and where there is heterogeneity across workers' managerial ability. Workers with higher skills will manage larger firms while workers with low managerial ability will run smaller firms and will be in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733108

The informal sector wage gap : new evidence using quantile estimations on panel data

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2009

This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We compute precise wage differentials by accounting for...

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Is informality bad? : evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010

The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...

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