infonet-economy

We study the response of regional employment and nominal wages to trade liberalization, exploiting the natural experiment provided by the opening of Central and Eastern European markets after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1990. Using data for Austrian municipalities, we examine differential pre- and post-1990 wage and employment growth rates between regions bordering the formerly...

On attend une plus grande intégration commerciale dans la région de Moyen Orient et Afrique du Nord suite à l'achèvement de l'accord sur la Zone Arabe de Libre Échange (ZALE) en 1998. Cependant, ses études récentes suggèrent que la région comprend à la fois des pays riches et des pays pauvres en ressources naturelles, comme dans la ZALE, les pays riches en ressources...

Un nombre croissant d’études explore les différentes dimensions de la proximité linguistique favorisant les échanges commerciaux. Néanmoins, peu d’analyses se sont concentrées sur des aires linguistiques en particulier et aucune sur le cas de la langue française. Quelle est aujourd’hui l’importance de la langue française dans le commerce international ? Dans quelle mesure l’existence...

Ce rapport fait suite à une demande émanant du Conseil d’État à travers le département de la sécurité, de la police et de l'environnement et dont le mandat a été confié au Professeur Flückiger actuel vice-recteur de l’Université de Genève. L’objectif de ce mandat consiste à fournir un tableau aussi complet que possible de la population clandestine dans le canton de Genève. Un...

Neuroscience, like genomic science creates new ways of harming, as well as helping, people. However, this paper argues, these are unlikely fundamentally to challenge the reasons to value privacy, or our ability to protect it for the foreseeable future. Rather, the main threat to privacy comes from the difficulty of determining its nature and value. Hence, this paper looks at the...

Three Problems make ethical life difficult for us, and explain the importance of an ‘ethics review’ of scientific research. The first is that we lack a table of weights and measures which would enable us to evaluate the relative importance of our different values and rights - such as rights to life and liberty. The second is that we lack a dictionary which can tell us what ‘life’ and...

Issue ownership is commonly conceptualized as multidimensional, consisting of a “competence” dimension and an “associative” dimension. Because existing operationalizations of issue ownership tap only the former dimension, we focus on associative issue ownership: the spontaneous identification between specific issues and specific parties in the minds of voters. Survey evidence from...

This article enquires into the causes of union growth and decline by analysing flows in and out of membership at the level of 70 Swiss union locals over 2006–2008. Gross flows in union membership are much larger than the resulting net changes: annual membership turnover of 10 per cent is a surprisingly constant feature across unions. Net changes in membership are primarily determined...