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employment dynamics in the case of Viet Nam. The econometric analysis consists of two parts. First, data covering formal firms … are exploited to investigate the relationship between sector-level services import intensity and firm-level employment and … services firms, whereas a small negative effect on firm-level employment is observed. For manufacturing firms, there is no …
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Ever since the early 20th century, Argentina has failed to fully reap the benefits that integrating into the world economy can offer. With exports and imports only accounting for less than 30% of GDP, Argentina is significantly less integrated into the world economy than other emerging market...
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employment during the same period; and (iii) the recent trade war generated welfare losses, had small employment effects, and was …
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Whether gains from trade are equally distributed within countries is the subject of a lively debate. This paper presents a novel framework to analyse the distributional effects of trade policy by linking the OECD’s CGE trade model, METRO, with consumption expenditure data from household budget...
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Services trade has become increasingly important, yet its impact on employment has been understudied at present. This … employment and wages in the United Kingdom. It finds that firms can benefit from services trade, through increased employment … suggest that services imports enhance female wages more than those of males, thereby contributing to narrow the gender wage …
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adverse - effects, understanding the difficulties in using it to manage employment is important for economic policy. …
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outcome variables – labour productivity, employment and wages. In a second step, an illustrative set of changes in trading … on sectoral employment, except for car and truck manufacturing, consistent with a high integration of the sector with …
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This paper provides evidence of the links between Global Value Chains (GVCs) and labour market outcomes, focusing on developing economies. The literature generally indicates that firms with international linkages—which we use here as a proxy for GVC involvement—tend to employ more workers,...
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The objective of this paper is to estimate the potential pro-poor bias in the existing structure of protection in six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (i.e., whether it redistributes income from rich to poor households). We also explore the extent to which the barriers faced by SSA...
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This paper examines the presence of a pro-poor bias in the existing structure of protection of six Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, and Madagascar. We build on a simple agricultural household production model and we propose an...
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