International trade and unemployment: evidence from selected Arab countries

Awad, Atif; Yussof, Ishak

doi:10.1080/17938120.2016.1226466

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“…Boulhol (2008), by taking the panel data of 20 countries, and Helpman and Itskhoki (2010), by taking a two-country model, observed a positive relationship between trade openness and unemployment as people could not search for jobs in the exporting sector due to labor market frictions. Moreover, Awad and Yussof (2016) and Madanizadeh and Pilvar (2019) also observed a positive relationship between trade openness and unemployment. For OIC countries, Ali et al (2020) analyzed the asymmetric association between trade openness and unemployment for capital-abundant and labor-abundant OIC countries.…”

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confidence: 85%

“…Following the studies of Gozgor (2014) and Awad and Yussof (2016), the econometric form of our model can be expressed as follows:…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We use the principal component analysis (PCA) [2] to obtain institutional performance index (INP), which consists of eight institutional indicators (military in politics, stability of government, socioeconomic conditions, corruption control, democratic accountability, religious tensions, law and order, and quality of bureaucracy). These indicators of institutional performance reflect various factors that significantly influence unemployment (Awad and Yussof, 2016).…”

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Impact of trade openness, human capital, public expenditure and institutional performance on unemployment: evidence from OIC countries

Ali

Yusop

Kaliappan

et al. 2021

IJM

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Purpose This study examines the impact of trade openness, human capital, public expenditure and institutional performance on unemployment in various income groups of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries. Design/methodology/approach Traditional panel data methodologies neglect the issue of cross-sectional dependence and provide ambiguous outcomes. A novel approach, “dynamic common correlated effects (DCCE)”, is utilized in this study to tackle with aforementioned issue. Pooled mean group (PMG) estimation is also applied to verify the robustness of the findings. Findings The long-run estimates show that trade openness has a significant and negative relationship with the unemployment rate in overall and lower-income OIC economies and a positive correlation with unemployment in higher-income OIC countries. Public expenditure is negatively and significantly correlated with unemployment in higher-income and overall OIC economies. Moreover, human capital reduces unemployment in higher-income and overall OIC countries while increases unemployment in lower-income OIC economies. Practical implications The research tends to endorse the argument for continuous trade openness policy along with efficient use of public expenditure and improved institutional performance to reduce unemployment in OIC countries. Originality/value The DCCE approach in this research considers heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence between cross-sectional units and thus gives robust outcomes.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 85%

“…Following the studies of Gozgor (2014) and Awad and Yussof (2016), the econometric form of our model can be expressed as follows:…”

Section: Estimation Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Impact of trade openness, human capital, public expenditure and institutional performance on unemployment: evidence from OIC countries

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Yusop

Kaliappan

et al. 2021

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“…In previous works, the nominal values of trade openness and GDP growth are used (for instance, see Aoyagi and Ganelli 2015;Ali et al 2020). But, in this study, following Felbermayr, Prat, and Schmerer (2011) and Awad and Yussof (2016), the real values of trade openness and GDP growth are used, which can reflect the actual exposure of an economy through its purchasing power. Most previous studies rely on a panel data approach that delivers common findings on the openness-growth relationship, although some of the countries have no evidence of such relationship individually.…”

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Asymmetric openness-growth nexus in 20 highly open OIC countries: Evidence from quantile-on-quantile regression approach

Ali

Yusop

Kaliappan

et al. 2021

The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development

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This study analyzes the asymmetric association between trade openness and economic growth in 20 highly open Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries. A novel technique, quantile-on-quantile (QQ), is applied by using the data for the period 1991-2018. The results consider the mode of how quantiles of trade openness asymmetrically affect the quantiles of economic growth by giving an appropriate framework to apprehend the overall dependence structure. A positive linkage between trade openness and economic growth is found in United Arab Emirates,

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“…Depuis les théories de Hecksher–Ohlin–Stolper–Samuelson et Viner, le consensus n'est pas de mise quant à l'effet de l'ouverture commerciale sur la création d'emploi. Aussi, au plan empirique, alors que plusieurs études (Dutt et al, 2009; Felbermayr et al, 2011a, 2011b; Matusz, 1996; Iapadre, 2011; Awad & Yussof, 2017, Gozgor, 2014, Kiyota, 2011) soutiennent que la libéralisation commerciale favorise la création d'emplois, d'autres par contre révèlent que le commerce international contribue à accroitre le chômage (Helpman et al, 2010; Janiak, 2007). Certaines études démontrent que cette augmentation du chômage est seulement constatée chez les travailleurs moins qualifiés (Moore & Ranjan, 2005; Şener, 2001).…”

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Ouverture commerciale, institutions du marché du travail et emploi des jeunes en Afrique

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Bah

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African Development Review

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L'objectif de ce travail est de mesurer l'effet de l'ouverture commerciale et des institutions du marché du travail sur l'emploi des jeunes en Afrique. Pour ce faire, nous avons considéré un ensemble de 38 pays sur la période 2000-2018. Les méthodes d'estimation utilisées portent sur les moindres carrés ordinaires (MCO), la méthode instrumentale (doubles moindres carrés-2SLS) et la méthode des moments généralisés en système (MMG-système). Les résultats révèlent que l'ouverture commerciale et la rigidité des institutions du marché du travail ont un effet positif et significatif sur l'emploi des jeunes en Afrique. Par contre, l'ouverture commerciale affecte négativement et significativement l'emploi des jeunes sur les marchés du travail rigides. Ces résultats sont valides face à plusieurs tests de robustesse. M O T S C L É S Afrique, emploi des jeunes, MCO, MMG en système, ouverture commerciale, rigidité des institutions du marché du travail, 2SLS

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International trade and unemployment: evidence from selected Arab countries

Cited by 8 publications

References 41 publications

Impact of trade openness, human capital, public expenditure and institutional performance on unemployment: evidence from OIC countries

Impact of trade openness, human capital, public expenditure and institutional performance on unemployment: evidence from OIC countries

Asymmetric openness-growth nexus in 20 highly open OIC countries: Evidence from quantile-on-quantile regression approach

Ouverture commerciale, institutions du marché du travail et emploi des jeunes en Afrique

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