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Title: Efficiency Gains from Trade Reform: Foreign Technology or Import Competition? Evidence from South Africa’s Manufacturing Sector Author(s): SHENDY, Riham Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: The empirical trade literature examining the effect of tariff reductions on productivity commonly proxies the former with Nominal Tariff Rates (NTR) and estimates the latter as the production function residual. In the ...
Title: Do Unions Matter? Trade Reform and Manufacturing Wages in South Africa Author(s): SHENDY, Riham Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: The effect of nominal tariff cuts on industry wage differentials has been the subject of a number of recent empirical studies. In this paper we investigate the latter relationship with respect to the South African trade ...

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