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This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United … clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional exposure to trade competition from China. While the impacts of … technology are present throughout the United States, the impacts of trade tend to be more geographically concentrated, owing in …
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We assess the literature on public and private quality standards and their impact in food markets, international trade …, and global supply chains. We focus on their effects on welfare, trade, industrial organization, and labor markets and with … impediment against trade and development, reflecting the complexity of these effects and their specificity to industries and …
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There is no consensus about how globalization –trade and foreign investments – affects poverty reduction. Using … household-level implications of increased foreign investments and trade in the horticulture sector in Senegal. In many aspects …
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The debate on trade and poverty is reinforced by recent studies on the role of standards. It is argued that increasing … standards act as trade barriers for developing countries and cause further marginalization of the poor. This paper is the first … to quantify income and poverty effects of such high-standards trade and to integrate labor market effects, by using …
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negative, but they are also influenced most by the global financial crisis. Finally, we find a significant link between trade …
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China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it … has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets adjust to trade shocks. Alongside the … heralded consumer benefits of expanded trade are substantial adjustment costs and distributional consequences. These impacts …
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emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower …-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …
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We use data from the Pew Global Attitudes Survey to analyse how public attitudes towards trade have changed over time … in developed economies, and how these attitudes differ across groups in the population. Attitudes towards trade … larger increases in Chinese import competition. Perhaps surprisingly, given that barriers to trade appear to be on the …
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This paper aims to identify the bilateral trade possibilities and non-tariff barriers between India and Pakistan. The … study shows that there is a large untapped trade potential between the two countries. Using the potential trade approach … categories, namely, quantitative restrictions, trade facilitation and customs procedures, technical barriers to trade and …
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Under India-Korea Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, both India and Korea have offered trade liberalisation … trade between the two countries. Using the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) index, the paper shortlists four sectors of … interest and identifies possibilities of bilateral trade flows in these sectors in the purview of existing domestic regulatory …
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