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This paper studies the Hong Kong economy from a trade intermediary’s perspective. Using a structural vector autoregression (SVAR) framework, we discover that trade-related external shocks mainly affect the economy through re-exports channel over the offshore trade channel. We observe that...
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incentives and an abundant supply of educated labour, investors have not rushed to the EPZs, except for one firm which has its … States trade embargo, but rather because employers must pay US $1.50 an hour for labour that receives take-home wages …
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Agency-based explanations of the great deprivation, contrasted with structure-based explanations, suffer not merely from the criticism of relying on irrational and irresponsible behavior of millions, including that of the most astute financial experts, but are also at a loss to explain why such...
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Australia, following the institutionalisation of compulsory industrial arbitration between capital and labour. This process led … on the role of the state in the labour market regulation, development of the related legislation, and the role played by … controls and labour market stability. …
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This paper investigates the strategy changes of the Benetton Group who have been facing severe intense competition in the international fashion market since the mid nine-ties. New competitors, in particular the European brands Zara, Mango and H&M, have challenged the Benetton position in the...
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The problem of child labour is immense and has been growing. Wherever poverty exists, child labour there prevails and … household labour supply decisions, considering relations to the labour market and to public interventions is critical in … designing programmes in order to achieve the MDG. The research on child labour represent in this respect a largely untapped …
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are independent of the nature of capital mobility between the informal and the formal sectors. It also shows that labour …
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It can be theoretically shown that variety trade can be a possible source of increased skill premium in wages. No past studies, however, have empirically quantified how much of the increase in skill premium can be accounted for by the increase in variety trade. This paper now formulates a static...
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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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This study assesses the macroeconomic impacts of increasing competition in the non-tradable goods and labour markets in …-tradable goods and labour markets could induce important international competitiveness gains and be valuable instruments in promoting …
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