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Incomplete Specialization and Offshoring across Europe

Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evžen - CESifo - 2012

Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has been done by analyzing gross trade flows related to offshore activities using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of supply-side country differences. This paper...

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International Trade and Unemployment: A Quantitative Framework

Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - CESifo - 2012

Quantifying the welfare effects of trade liberalization is a core issue in international trade. Existing frameworks assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. We develop a quantitative trade framework which explicitly models labor...

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Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform

Filho, Naércio Aquino Menezes; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2007

Tracking individual workers across employers and industries after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that foreign import penetration and tariff reductions trigger worker displacements but that neither comparative-advantage industries nor exporters absorb displaced workers for...

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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility

Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college …

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Globalization: A Woman's Best Friend? Exporters and the Gender Wage Gap

Bøler, Esther Ann; Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska; … - CESifo - 2015

While the impact of globalization on income inequality has received a lot of attention, little is known about its effect on the gender wage gap (GWG). This study argues that there is a systematic difference in the GWG between exporting firms and non-exporters. By the virtue of being exposed to...

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Maquiladoras and Informality: A Mixed Blessing

Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario; Riaño, Alejandro - CESifo - 2011

Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. At the same time, a large proportion of its labor force remains employed in the informal sector. Since one of the main objectives of the maquiladora program was to increase formal employment, we...

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Does China Still Have a Labor Cost Advantage?

Ceglowski, Janet; Golub, Stephen - CESifo - 2011

In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China’s cost advantage in manufactures. This paper explores the evolution of China’s relative unit labor costs in manufacturing over 1998-2009. Between 1998 and 2003 China’s unit labor costs...

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Trade Costs and Job Flows: Evidence from Establishment-Level Data

Groizard, Jose L.; Ranjan, Priya; Rodriguez-Lopez, Antonio - CESifo - 2014

Changes in the costs of trading inputs or final goods affect establishment-level job flows. Using a longitudinal database containing the universe of manufacturing establishments in California from 1992 to 2004, we find that a decline in input or final-good trade costs is associated with job...

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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2014

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...

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Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Domestic Competition, and Inflation: Evidence from the 2005/08 Revaluation of the Renminbi

Auer, Raphael A. - CESifo - 2012

This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the USD from 2005 to 2008 on the prices charged by US producers. As the RMB during that time was pegged to a basket of currencies, the empirical strategy must account for the fact...

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