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that taxation and unemployment benefits account the largest shares of the mean PTR. Another finding is that PTRs vary …
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In this paper, we analyze the growth effects of historical and biological ancestry, diversity and financial development in transition economies. We show that the common indicators of ethnolinguistic fractionalization, state history and genetic distance yield significant results and to some...
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During the past half century many nations have adopted policies whose function is to discourage cartels and other restrictive practices. Industrialized nations led the movement toward pro-competition policies, but more recently, developing nations have begun to join the parade. Initial steps...
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empirical evidences are mixed. This study utilizes China's dual trade regime and China's WTO entry in 2001 to construct a unique … treatment group; while processing exporters that enjoy tariff-exemptions both pre- and post-WTO entry serve as the control group …. Results show that China's WTO entry contributed to a lower SO2 emission intensity for normal exporting firms. We further …
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I provide new empirical evidence on the direct and indirect impact of services offshoring on local employment and wages …, using a unique dataset on firms in the UK for the period 2000-2015. Exploiting variation in firms' services offshoring … across labour markets, I show positive aggregate local labour employment and wage elasticity to services offshoring …
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