New Growth and Poverty Alleviation Strategies for Africa - International and Regional Perspectives. African Development Perspectives Yearbook, Vol. 13
Karl Wohlmuth, Tobias Knedlik, Mareike Meyn, Afeikhena Jerome, T. (eds) Urban
African Development Perspectives Yearbook,
2008
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Trade's Impact on the Labor Share: Evidence from German and Italian Regions
Claudia M. Buch
IAW Discussion Paper No. 46,
2008
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Has the labor share declined? And what is the impact of international trade? These
questions are not only relevant in an international context they also matter for
understanding the regional distribution of incomes in a given country. In this
paper, we study two regions with trade exposures that differ from the rest of the
country, and which display distinct changes in the labor share. East German and
Southern Italian regions have a degree of international openness which is below
the countries’ averages. At the same time, there has been a more pronounced
decline in the labor share in East Germany than in West Germany. In Southern
Italy, the labor share has increased in recent years. We show that increased trade
openness is not the main culprit behind changing labor shares.
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The Great Risk Shift? Income Volatility in an International Perspective
Claudia M. Buch
CESifo Working Paper No. 2465,
2008
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Weakening bargaining power of unions and the increasing integration of the world economy may affect the volatility of capital and labor incomes. This paper documents and explains changes in income volatility. Using a theoretical framework which builds distribution risk into a real business cycle model, hypotheses on the determinants of the relative volatility of capital and labor are derived. The model is tested using industry-level data. The data cover 11 industrialized countries, 22 manufacturing and services industries, and a maximum of 35 years. The paper has four main findings. First, the unconditional volatility of labor and capital incomes has declined, reflecting the decline in macroeconomic volatility. Second, the idiosyncratic component of income volatility has hardly changed over time. Third, crosssectional heterogeneity in the evolution of relative income volatilities is substantial. If anything, the labor incomes of high- and low-skilled workers have become more volatile in relative terms. Fourth, income volatility is related to variables measuring the bargaining power of workers. Trade openness has no significant impact.
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Regional origins of employment volatility: evidence from German states
Claudia M. Buch
CES IFO Working Paper No. 2296,
2008
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Greater openness for trade can have positive welfare effects in terms of higher growth. But increased openness may also increase uncertainty through a higher volatility of employment. We use regional data from Germany to test whether openness for trade has an impact on volatility. We find a downward trend in the unconditional volatility of employment, paralleling patterns for output volatility. The conditional volatility of employment, measuring idiosyncratic developments across states, in contrast, has remained fairly unchanged. In contrast to evidence for the US, we do not find a significant link between employment volatility and trade openness.
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Politik für periphere, ländliche Räume – Für eine eigenständige und selbstverantwortliche Regionalentwicklung
P. Dehne, K. Borchard, U. Grabski-Kieron, J. Kaether, H. Kistenmacher, Jürgen Maier, H. Zeck, Martin T. W. Rosenfeld
Positionspapier aus der Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung (ARL), Nr. 77,
2008
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Zur Rolle der Kommunen in der Daseinsvorsorge am Beispiel der Wasserversorgung
Birger Nerré
Die Rolle der Kommunen in der Wasserwirtschaft – Hallesches Kolloquium zur Kommunalen Wirtschaft 2005. Schriftenreihe des IWH, Bd. 25,
2007
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Unterbeschäftigung als Schicksal: Geht den frühindustrialisierten Gesellschaften tatsächlich die Arbeit aus?
Ulrich Blum
Hauptsache Arbeit!?,
2007
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National Report of Denmark
Iciar Dominguez Lacasa
Inventory and analysis of national public policies that stimulate research in biotechnology, its exploitation and commercialisation by industry in Europe in the period 2002–2005,
2007
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National Report of Croatia
Iciar Dominguez Lacasa
Inventory and analysis of national public policies that stimulate research in biotechnology, its exploitation and commercialisation by industry in Europe in the period 2002–2005,
2007
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Kartelle und Wettbewerb nach der Treuhandprivatisierung: Der Fall des ostdeutschen Zementkartells
Ulrich Blum, A. Schaller, Michael A. Veltins
Res publica semper reformanda,
2008
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