Les pays à bas salaires et les échanges commerciaux avec l'Union européenne

Pierre-André Buigues and Alexis Jacquemin
Additional contact information
Pierre-André Buigues: Commission européenne, Direction Générale des Affaires économiques et financières
Alexis Jacquemin: UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, Department of Economics; Commission européenne, Cellule de Prospective

No 1994019, LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES from Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES)

Abstract: This paper identifies the countries with low hourly wages in industry, and the proportion of world GDP produced by these countries. Next, it determines the relative importance of imports from low wage countries and examines the extent to which Community exports to the LWCs follow trends which resemble or differ from the trends for imports. The aggregated approach then gives way to an examination of sectors at 2-digit and 3-digit levels wich in particular shows the presence of intrabranch type trade. Finally, an econometric exercises is designed to identify certain factors likely to promote or to inhibit imports from the LWCs to the European Union. These factors are not very mobile and can be influenced by Community policies the aim of wich is to encourage the establishment of activities within the European market.

Pages: 25
Date: 1994-09-01
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ctl:louvir:1994019

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES from Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES) Place Montesquieu 3, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Virginie LEBLANC ().