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The conclusion of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) constitutes a priority and key component of the external trade policy of the European Union (EU). It is also an immediate follow-up to several years of regulatory cooperation between the two global trade powers. In an...
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Services play a more important role in trade and employment in the United Kingdom than in most other OECD countries …
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considerably higher exit rates from exporting to the UK and from the market overall. They also saw greater declines in employment … or for average wages. These findings are robust to controlling for a variety of firm characteristics. …
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considerably higher exit rates from exporting to the UK and from the market overall. They also saw greater declines in employment … or for average wages. These findings are robust to controlling for a variety of firm characteristics. …
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comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … productive services firms that pay higher wages. The surprising finding of self-selection of less profitable German business …
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comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … productive services firms that pay higher wages. The surprising finding of self-selection of less profitable German business …
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focus on the formal regulation of the employment relationship to include other crucial regulatory mechanisms in the analysis … produce in practice. The paper identifies four main regulatory forces that shape the quantum and basis of the wages and non …
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I develop an index for economic integration accounting for its gradual and bilateral nature: the Gradual And Bilateral Integration (GABI) index. The graduality captures differences in the depth and path of five stages in economic integration and is an improvement over the use of binary dummy...
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Galvanized by the devastation of the Second World War, European countries achieved a historically unprecedented and unparalleled level of regional economic integration in the postwar period. Intensive cooperation between the two biggest powers of continental Western Europe, France, and Germany,...
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In the struggle between the forces of free trade and the restrictive influence of insularism the latter recently seems to have the upper hand. This is illustrated by the referendum of June 23, 2016 where the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the Europea+n Union (EU). In this paper we evaluate...
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