European Economic Integration, WTO Membership, Immigration and Offshoring

Wilhelm Kohler
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Wilhelm Kohler: University of Tübingen, Germany

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Abstract: This volume is a collection of papers that apply general equilibrium theory in order to obtain policy relevant insights on topical issues of international trade and migration. The first set of papers focuses on European integration, applying dynamic numerical general equilibrium methods to quantify the effects of geographic extension of the European Union, including the effects of Eastern enlargement of the EU on incumbent Western member countries. The second set of papers deals with the trade effects of WTO membership, with special focus on the so-called extensive country margin, where new international trading relationships are formed. The third set of papers focuses on immigration, offering a rigorous theoretical analysis of the so-called immigration surplus as well as an econometric estimation of the gains and pain that Germany has forgone by initially restricting immigration from new EU member countries after the EU's Eastern enlargement in 2004. And finally, the book contains a set of theoretical papers on the distributional effects of offshoring.

Keywords: Economic Integration; WTO Membership; Immigration; Offshoring; European Union; International Trade; Migration; Gravity; Germany; Equilibrium; Tariff Liberalization; Commercial Policy; Eastern Enlargement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
ISBN: 9789814440189
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction , pp 1-33

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Ch 2 Eastern Enlargement of the EU: Jobs, Investment and Welfare in Present Member Countries , pp 37-83

Ben Heijdra, Christian Keuschnigg and Wilhelm Kohler

Ch 3 Eastern Enlargement of the EU: A Comprehensive Welfare Assessment , pp 85-112

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Ch 4 Exploring the Intensive and Extensive Margins of World Trade , pp 115-148

Gabriel Felbermayr and Wilhelm Kohler

Ch 5 WTO Membership and the Extensive Margin of World Trade: New Evidence , pp 149-192

Gabriel Felbermayr and Wilhelm Kohler

Ch 6 The Distributional Effects of International Fragmentation , pp 195-229

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Ch 7 Aspects of International Fragmentation , pp 231-263

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Ch 8 International Outsourcing and Factor Prices with Multistage Production , pp 265-290

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Ch 9 The Bazaar Effect, Unbundling of Comparative Advantage, and Migration , pp 291-331

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Ch 10 Immigration and Native Welfare , pp 335-372

Gabriel Felbermayr and Wilhelm Kohler

Ch 11 Can International Migration Ever Be Made a Pareto Improvement? , pp 373-393

Gabriel Felbermayr and Wilhelm Kohler

Ch 12 Restrictive Immigration Policy in Germany: Pains and Gains Foregone? , pp 395-419

Gabriel Felbermayr, Wido Geis-Thöne and Wilhelm Kohler

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