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Institutions, trade and development : a quantitative analysis

Beverelli, Cosimo; Keck, Alexander; Larch, Mario; … - 2018

We propose and apply methods to quantify the impact of national institutions on international trade and development. We are able to identify the direct impact of country-specific institutions on international trade within the structural gravity framework. Our approach naturally addresses the...

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Global value chains and developing country employment : a literature review

Shepherd, Ben - 2013

GVCs and labour markets. However, it is possible to extrapolate from the extensive empirical work already undertaken on … firm internationalisation and labour markets to draw inferences as to the likely impacts of GVCs. The review therefore … focuses on the labour market impacts of three processes that lie at the core of GVC development: importing, exporting, and …

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Financial development and inequality in the global economy

Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2016

We build a heterogeneous-firms model with firm-specific wages and credit frictions to study the role of financial development for inequality in the global economy. If there are many small firms, better access to external funds reduces wage inequality and unemployment. In contrast, if there are...

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Financial development and inequality in the global economy

Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2016

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Do WTO rules create a level playing field? : Lessons from the experience of Peru and Vietnam

Davis, Christina L. - In: Negotiating trade : developing countries in the WTO and …, (pp. 219-256). 2006

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Globalisation versus Informality: Evidence from developing countries

Hanh, PHAM Thi Hong - 2011

A number of theoretical studies have tended to trace the nature of globalization process' impacts (mostly characterised by trade opening) on informality, while relevant empirical literature has been not well developed. The paper aims to fill this knowledge gap by shedding further light on the...

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Trade liberalization, labor reforms and formal–informal employment dynamics

Bosch, Mariano; Goñi-Pacchioni, Edwin; Maloney, William - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 5, pp. 653-667

This paper studies gross worker flows to explain the rise in informality in Brazilian metropolitan labor markets from 1983 to 2002. In particular, we examine the impact of trade and constitutional reforms (that include increased firing costs, tighter restrictions on overtime work, and fewer...

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Globalisation versus Informality: Evidence from developing countries

Hanh, PHAM Thi Hong - FIW - 2011

A number of theoretical studies have tended to trace the nature of globalization process’ impacts (mostly characterised by trade opening) on informality, while relevant empirical literature has been not well developed. The paper aims to fill this knowledge gap by shedding further light on the...

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Capital Market Integration and Wages

Henry, Peter; Sasson, Diego - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2009

For three years after the typical developing country opens its stock market to inflows of foreign capital, the average annual growth rate of the real wage in the manufacturing sector increases by a factor of seven. No such increase occurs in a control group of developing countries. The temporary...

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Developing countries and the multilateral trading system after Doha

Srinivasan, Thirukodikaval N. - 2002

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