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How does economic integration influence employment and wages in border regions? : the case of the EU-enlargement 2004 and Germany's Eastern border
Braakmann, Nils; Vogel, Alexander - 2009
effects. Wages and employment in manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, hotels and restaurants and social and personal … service activities seem to have been relatively less affected. -- EU-enlargement ; economic integration ; employment ; wages …This paper considers the (short run) employment and wage effects of the 2004 EUenlargement on firms located close to …
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Services sectors' agglomeration and its interdependence with industrial agglomeration in the European Union
Krenz, Astrid - 2010
Services sectors' agglomeration in the European Union, its development over time, its driving factors and dynamic tendencies will be empirically investigated in this study. Locational gini coefficients are computed taking EU-KLEMS data for 14 European countries covering 22 services sectors over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008666588
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Economic integration, wage policies and social policies
Pflüger, Michael - 2003 - Final version: July 8, 2003
policies and higher wages than the periphery without inducing a relocation of firms. The scope to have higher wage is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438609
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Trade, wages, and productivity
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2012
firms, and multiple asymmetric regions. Wages, productivity, consumption diversity, and markups across firms and markets are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683263
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Trade, wages and productivity
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2009
endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favours wage convergence, boosts competition, and forces the least efficient firms … of removing the Canada-US border on wages, productivity, mark-ups, the share of exporters, the mass of varieties produced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011599058
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Bilateralism in services trade : is there fire behind the (BIT-)smoke?
Adlung, Rudolf; Molinuevo, Martin - 2008
Far less attention is given to the even more rapid proliferation of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and their overlap with obligations assumed by WTO Members under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). About 60 per cent of world foreign investment stocks are in services and,...
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Poison in the wine? : tracing GATS-minus commitments in regional trade agreements
Adlung, Rudolf; Miroudot, Sébastien - 2012 - Manuscript date: 31.01.2012
Commitments in regional trade agreements (RTAs) that fall short of the same countries' obligations under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) are a relatively frequent phenomenon. However, they have gone widely unnoticed in the literature to date and drawn very little attention in...
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Integrating south and southeast Asia through services value chain : the case of India and Thailand
Mukherjee, Arpita; Goyal, Tanu M. - 2015
Liberalisation and technological developments have led to the fragmentation of production and the emergence of the concept of global value chains. This has ushered in the role of services for linking the production network, resulting in a greater composition of services in the value of tradable....
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Multi-dimensional poverty analysis for Tanzania : first order dominance approach with discrete indicators
Arndt, Channing; Leyaro, Vincent; Mahrt, Kristi - 2014
As in much of sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania has attained rapid economic growth accompanied by only marginal reductions in poverty. Is this mismatch between high economic growth and less significant poverty reduction due to how growth and poverty are measured and reconciled, or more substantial...
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Comertul cu servicii al ue sub impactul globalizarii si al crizei economice
Ghibuţiu, Agnes; Oehler-Şincai, Iulia Monica - 2010
This paper examines the evolution of the EU’s trade in services over the 2004-2008 period in comparison with its trade in goods. It aims to disentangle the main trends shaping the EU’s services trade flows under the impact of increasing globalisation and the last two waves of EU enlargement....
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