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Trade, Offshoring, and the Invisible Handshake
Karabay, Bilgehan - 2009
integration of commodity markets (i.e., free trade) and international integration of factor markets (i.e., offshoring). In a two …-country, two-good, two-factor model we show that free trade and offshoring have opposite effects on rich-country workers. Free … trade hurts rich-country workers, while reducing the volatility of their wages; by contrast, offshoring benefits them, while …
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Looking for Local Labor Market Effects of NAFTA
McLaren, John - 2010
Using US Census data for 1990-2000, we estimate effects of NAFTA on US wages. We look for effects of the agreement by industry and by geography, measuring each industry's vulnerability to Mexican imports, and each locality's dependance on vulnerable industries. We find evidence of both effects,...
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Recent Findings on Trade and Inequality
Harrison, Ann - 2010
) income inequality. These include within-industry effects due to heterogeneous firms; effects of offshoring of tasks; effects …
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Some Simple Analytics of Trade and Labor Mobility
Chaudhuri, Shubham - 2007
We study a simple, tractable model of labor adjustment in a trade model that allows us to analyze the economy's dynamic response to trade liberalization. Since it is a neoclassical market-clearing model, we can use duality techniques to study the equilibrium, and despite its simplicity a rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465184
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Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment : Theory
Cameron, Stephen - 2007
We construct a dynamic, stochastic rational expectations model of labor reallocation within a trade model that is designed so that its key parameters can be estimated for trade policy analysis. A key feature is the presence of time-varying idiosyncratic moving costs faced by workers. As a...
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Trade Policy and Wage Inequality : A Structural Analysis with Occupational and Sectoral Mobility
Artuç, Erhan - 2012
A number of authors have argued that a worker's occupation of employment is at least as important as the worker's industry of employment in determining whether the worker will be hurt or helped by international trade. We investigate the role of occupational mobility on the effects of trade...
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