Devaluation. Export Quality and Employment in a Small Dependent Economy
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In: Journal of international trade & economic development: an international and comparative review, Band 22, Heft 7, S. 959-992
ISSN: 1469-9559
In: 2013, Economics Bulletin, 33 (4): 2682-2691.
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In: Economic Modeling 29, 917-25, 2012
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In: Environment and development economics, Band 17, Heft 2
ISSN: 1469-4395
In: Environment and development economics, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 207-225
ISSN: 1469-4395
AbstractThis paper analyses the effect of environmental standards on aggregate employment in the presence of a productivity effect in a multi-sector general equilibrium framework of an open economy. The productivity effect is generated among the skilled and unskilled workers as an improvement in the environmental quality improves their health, leading to an increase in their productivity. Though the productivity effect initially lowers labour demand as labour requirement per unit of production falls, a standard may raise employment depending on the parametric configurations. In this paper, we identify the role of this productivity effect on the change in employment and show that it may actually improve the chances of an employment expansion.
In: The journal of policy reform, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 203-217
ISSN: 1477-2736
In: Indian Growth and Development Review, 9(1): 79-99, 2016.
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In: CESifo Working Paper No. 8090
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In: The World Economy, 42: 2629-2648, 2019
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In: CESifo Working Paper Series No. 8090
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In: The World Economy, Band 42, Heft 9, S. 2629-2648
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In: Journal of international trade & economic development: an international and comparative review, Band 21, Heft 6, S. 865-894
ISSN: 1469-9559
In: European Journal of Political Economy, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 322-336
This book was written in honour of Professor Kalyan K. Sanyal, who was an excellent educator and renowned scholar in the field of international economics. One of his research papers co-authored with Ronald Jones, entitled "The Theory of Trade in Middle Products" and published in American Economic Review in 1982, was a seminal work in the field of international trade theory. This paper would go on to inspire many subsequent significant works by researchers across the globe on trade in intermediate goods. The larger impact of any paper, beyond the number of citations, lies in terms of the passion it sparks among younger researchers to pursue new questions. Measured by this yardstick, Sanyal's contribution in trade theory will undoubtedly be regarded as historic. After completing his Ph.D. at the University of Rochester he joined the Department of Economics at Calcutta University in the early 1980s and taught trade theory there for almost three decades. His insights, articulation and brilliance in teaching international economics have influenced and shaped the intellectual development of many of his students. After his sudden passing in February 2012, his students and colleagues organized a symposium in his honour at the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University from April 19 to 20, 2012. This book, a small tribute to his intellect and contribution, has been a follow-up on that endeavour, and a collective effort of many people including his teachers, friends, colleagues and students. In a nutshell it discusses intermediation of various kinds with significant implications for market integration through trade and finance. That trade can generate many non-trade-service sector links has recently emerged as a topic of growing concern and can trace its lineage back to the idea of the middle product, a recurring concept in Prof. Sanyal's work