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Chinesische Massenimporte stärken extreme Parteien in Europa
Steffen Müller
n-tv.de, 23. April 2024
We analyse whether the increase in trade exposure induced by the rise of China and the transformation of Eastern Europe has been a driver of the severe decline in collective bargaining coverage rates among German establishments from the mid 1990s onwards, which has been identified as a major source of rising wage inequality in Germany.
The extent to which a country can benefit from trade openness crucially depends on its ease of reallocating resources. However, we know little about the role of domestic frictions in shaping the effects of trade policy.
The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) and the International Network for Economic Research (INFER) were organising a workshop on risk spillover, current challenges for sustainable fiscal policy, and evaluations of pan-European transfers.
Am 21. und 22. Juni 2018 fand in Halle die vom IWH organisierte Jahreskonferenz des Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) statt. Nahezu 100 Wissenschaftler und Wissenschftlerinnen sowie Entscheidungsträger und Entscheidungsträgerinnen internationaler Universitäten und Organisationen diskutierten im Festsaal der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina neue Forschungsergebnisse zum Thema „Produktivität und Fehlallokation auf mikroökonomischer Ebene“. Insbesondere ging es um die Gründe einer suboptimalen Faktorallokation bei einzelnen Firmen und die dadurch im Aggregat verursachten Wohlfahrtsverluste.
Using a broad set of national industry trade shocks, I employ a novel approach to estimate agglomeration effects by exploiting within industry variation in indirect exposure to the other local industries’ (national) trade shocks across local labor markets.