The economic transition in post-communist countries generated a new phenomenon: open unemployment. Since the beginning of the reforms, the official unemployment rates have been very high in the CEECs (Central and Eastern European Countries), compared to the NIS (New Independent States from the...

De 1980 à 2002, l’industrie française a perdu 1 500 000 emplois. La croissance des importations en provenance des pays émergents dans les secteurs ayant perdu le plus d’emplois suggère que les délocalisations et le commerce avec ces pays pourraient en être responsables. Dans le même...

The relationship between the current account and the macroeconomic development remains an important issue in an open economy. Recently, global current account imbalances, and more specifically the large deficit in the United States and the surplus in China and other Asian economies, continue to...

The topic of this paper is the time needed by China for becoming the largest economy in the world, based on the current tendency of development. Four factors are estimated: GDP, speed of growth, exchange rate and GDP deflator. The results of the estimations lead to think that chinese economy...

This paper uses a gravity model to assess ex-post regional trade agreements. The model includes 130 countries and is estimated with panel data over the period 1962-1996. The introduction of the correct number of dummy variables allows for identification of Vinerian trade creation and trade...

It has been widely argued that, with the decline in trade costs, the importance of distance has declined over time. On the other hand, most gravity models find that the importance of distance has increased over time. This puzzle has not been satisfactorily explained and is examined here. The...

This paper investigates the relationship between firm-level productivity and investment climate (IC) for a large number of countries (23) and manufacturing industries (8). We first propose three measures of firms’ productive performances: Labor Productivity (LP), Total Factor Productivity...

In this paper, the impact of real exchange rate on employment is theoretically investigated. Three channels are identified. 1. Capital/labor intensity channel: the real appreciation, which decreases the cost of imported inputs and increases real wages expressed in tradable goods, exerts a...

En apportant des fondements microéconomiques à la segmentation du marché du travail, la nouvelle microéconomie de l'emploi est restée focalisée sur une vision manichéenne des modes organisationnels de coordination des offres et des demandes d'emploi opposant le marché externe au marché...

After motivating the analysis by describing cross-border trade between Nigeria and its neighbours, this paper analyses the welfare effect of smuggling and of trade liberalisation. When smuggling occurs because of a tariff or an export tax, smuggling is detrimental if it entails some real...