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The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Informality and Wages: Evidence from Mexico

Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

This paper studies the impact of NAFTA on informality and real wages in Mexico. Using a dynamic industry model with firm heterogeneity, it is predicted that import tariff elimination could reduce the incidence of informality by making more profitable to some firms to enter the formal sector,...

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Service Trade and Occupational Tasks: An Empirical Investigation

Ariu, Andrea; Mion, Giordano - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Using micro data for Belgium we investigate the relationship between occupational tasks changes and the rise of service trade. We focus the analysis on the extensive margin and look at the heterogeneous proliferation of firms involved in exports and imports of services across sectors...

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Import Competition from and Outsourcing to China: A Curse or Blessing for Firms?

Mion, Giordano; Zhu, Linke - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

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Winners and Losers from a Commodities-for-Manufactures Trade Boom

Costa, Francisco; Garred, Jason; Pessoa, Joao Paulo - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much concern about the losers from rising import competition in manufacturing, but little attention on the winners from growing Chinese demand for commodities. Using census data for...

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Landing The First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring

Stanton, Christopher; Thomas, Catherine - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Online markets for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract with each other directly. Despite this, intermediaries - called outsourcing agencies - have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that inexperienced workers are high quality....

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Productivity and the Sourcing Modes of Multinational Firms: Evidence from French Firm-Level Data

Defever, Fabrice; Toubal, Farid - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

We investigate the role of a firm's total factor productivity in its decision to import from their affiliates rather than from independent input suppliers. We propose a slightly modified version of the Antràs and Helpman (2004) model. We assume higher fixed costs under outsourcing and a...

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Service Traders in the UK

Breinlich, Holger; Criscuolo, Chiara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

We provide a novel set of stylized facts on firms engaging in international trade in services, using unique firm-level data on services exports and imports in the United Kingdom in 2000- 2005. Less than 10% of firms trade in services but they can be found in all sectors of the UK economy. While...

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The Determinants of Vertical Integration in Export Processing: Theory and Evidence from China

Fernandes, Ana; Tang, Heiwai - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

Using detailed product-level export data for China and a variant of the Antràs and Helpman (2004) model that includes investments in component search, we examine the sectoral determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) versus foreign outsourcing in export processing trade. We exploit the...

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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

How do offshoring and immigration affect the employment of native workers? What kinds of jobs suffer, or benefit, most … looked at the effects of offshoring and immigration separately, we argue that one can gain useful insights by jointly …. Third, we use the model to draw systematic predictions about the effects of immigration and offshoring on native workers and …

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Goods Trade, Factor Mobility and Welfare

Redding, Stephen J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

This paper extends a recent class of quantitative models of international trade to incorporate factor mobility within countries. We present a model-based decomposition of the variance of economic activity into the contributions of locational fundamentals, market access and their covariance. We...

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