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Essays on international trade and development
Heid, Benedikt - 2014
gravity models for developed countries to include unemployment (chapter 2) and for Latin American and Caribbean developing … migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). … Firmen (Kapitel 1), der Erweiterung struktureller Gravitationsmodelle um Arbeitslosigkeit in entwickelten Ländern (Kapitel 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742960
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Geography, Migrations and Equilibrium Unemployment
Epifani, Paolo; Gancia, Gino A. - 2002
We study the effects of trade integration on the regional coevolution of income, migrations and unemployment in a … a recently documented empirical puzzle, i.e., the divergence of unemployment rates, together with low migrations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014121350
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Firm heterogeneity and the labour market effects of trade liberalisation
Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2007
profits, involuntary unemployment and within-group wage inequality in a unified framework. We use this model to investigate … simultaneous increase of average profits and involuntary unemployment as well as a surge in within-group wage inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264131
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Digital Trade Agreements and Domestic Policy
Institute, Cato; Lester, Simon - 2021
National debates over policies that affect the flow of digital information are heating up as censorship, surveillance, control over personal data, and requirements to store data locally have emerged as contentious political issues. In the coming years, governments will need to carefully craft...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233239
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Fairness, trade, and inequality
Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo - In: Journal of International Economics 86 (2012) 2, pp. 184-196
premium. Aggregate welfare increases, but there is also larger inequality along multiple dimensions: Involuntary unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574402
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Fairness, trade, and inequality
Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2008
dimensions: Involuntary unemployment and income inequality between entrepreneurs and workers increase, and so does inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264394
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International Welfare and Employment Linkages Arising from Minimum Wages
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Markusen, James R. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We formulate a two-country model with monopolistic competition and heterogeneous firms to reconsider labor market linkages in open economies. Labor-market imperfections arise by virtue of country-specific real minimum wages. Two principal experiments are considered. First, we show that trade...
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Fairness, Trade, and Inequality
Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo - CESifo - 2008
dimensions: Involuntary unemployment and income inequality between entrepreneurs and workers increase, and so does inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094332
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Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes: Wage Bargaining, Search Frictions, and Firm Heterogeneity
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Prat, Julien; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We introduce search unemployment à la Pissarides into Melitz’ (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms. We allow … effect of trade influences labor market outcomes. Trade liberalization lowers unemployment and raises real wages as long as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703196
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Worker-specific effects of globalisation
Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2009
This paper sets up a general equilibrium model, in which firms are heterogeneous due to productivity differences and workers have fairness preferences and hence provide full effort only if their factor return is sufficiently high. With the wage considered to be fair by workers depending on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274385