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Advances in communication technology make it possible for workers in India to supply business services to head offices located anywhere. This has the potential to put high-wage workers in direct competition with much lower paid Indian workers. Service trade, however, like goods trade, is subject...
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advantage-induced import growth rates and abstracts from aggregate fluctuations and sector specific trends. In a panel covering … productivity response to import competition is much stronger in industries with inelastic demand. Overall, between 1997 and 2006 …
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The paper considers the effects of trade expansion between the EU and the Central and East European Countries (CEECs) on France. Taking a political-economy perspective, we attempt to detect potential demand for protection at the sectoral and regional level. Recent aggregate figures for trade and...
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Import competition from China is pervasive in the sense that for many good categories, the competitive environment that … up to 519 manufacturing sectors, import price changes of Chinese goods pass into US producer prices at an average rate of … 0.7, while import price changes that can be traced back to exchange rate movements of other trade partners only have …
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We develop a dynamic political-economic theory of welfare state and immigration policies, featuring three distinct …
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We formulate a two-country model with monopolistic competition and heterogeneous firms to reconsider labor market linkages in open economies. Labor-market imperfections arise by virtue of country-specific real minimum wages. Two principal experiments are considered. First, we show that trade...
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In this paper we demonstrate that intra-industry trade (or FDI) between identical countries could produce the observed deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers. This involves a model of North-North integration through either increased trade flows or increased MNE-based...
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foreign markets, but also import threats arising from foreign firms entering the domestic market. We explore the implications …
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In a two-country reciprocal-dumping model, with one country unionized, we analyse how wage setting and firm location are influenced by trade liberalization. We show that trade liberalization can induce a unionized firm to move all production abroad. This cannot prevail in a corresponding,...
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Globalization has failed to relax barriers to the movement of labor, especially unskilled workers. So have North-South Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs), while South-South RTAs have failed to implement good intentions. A literature review of the labor effects of RTAs underscores context...
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