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and analyzing the factors like world politics, the entry of globalization, shifting trade patterns and even culture … with. The discussion traces the globalization of food security as a product of discursive processes. By putting together …
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The proposal involves the establishment of ?welfare accounts? for every person in a country. There are to be four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...
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Germany'’s social security system is surveyed, its benefits and contributions are discussed. The expansion of this system in the last decades is described, its impact on employment and growth is studied and proposals for the reform of the system are discussed.
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challenge the view that greater openness to trade automatically leads to improved firm entry institutions. My model enables … calculating business entry impediments whereas lobbying game produces structural estimates of the counterfactual levels of trade … extensive margin and asymmetries in technology and trade costs. Importantly, the model demonstrates that startling differences …
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exemplify possible applications related to trade and FDI. By overcoming several data limitations, our new global index can help …
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Russia and China are assumed to challenge democratization and to promote autocracy. In a first step, we analyze Central Asia as the most-likely case, considering both Russia and China as relevant external actors. We develop a concept for our analysis based on the different strategies of Russia...
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This short note tries to argue that distance is not necessarily harmful for trade. It is shown that there may be an … increase in the production and volume of trade if time zones of the trading nations are non-overlapping. This implies a … positive effect of distance on the volume of trade. It is also shown that exploitation of time zone difference raises welfare …
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The paper uses a gravity model to examine the role of corruption in the direction of trade in a data set comprising … membership of the RTAs does not always increase bilateral trade whereas reducing a country's corruption does tend to increase … trade flows. The results suggest that EU membership, with the associated improvement in the perceived level of corruption …
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We explore the uses of double-calibrated general equilibrium models as a decomposition tool for analysing contributory factors in the growth and increasing wage inequality in an advanced economy (the UK) since 1979. Calibration of a model to start and end years, based upon an assumed functional...
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National labour market institutions interact across national boundaries when product markets are global. Labour market policies can thus entail spill-overs, which suggests that there are benefits from international policy coordination. This paper studies the effects of wage subsidies in an...
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