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main determinant of the increase in the non-manual wage bill share. By contrast, demand changes associated to trade have …
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During the 1990s Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have experienced rapid increases in wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers and received the largest FDI inflow in Central and Eastern Europe. This paper analyzes whether FDI has contributed to the raise in earning inequality...
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, suggesting that heterogeneity in factor shares is crucial to understand how firms react to trade liberalization. …
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This paper studies how cross-country differences in labor market institutions shape the pattern of international trade …-specific skill-intensive sectors through both the intensive and extensive margins of trade. I then estimate returns to firm tenure … market institutions on both margins of trade. …
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This paper uses plant–level data from Chile to show that an increase in sector–wide exports decreases the survival probability of exporters, but not that of non–exporters. We argue that this result can be explained by the fact that exporters and non-exporters use factors of production in...
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This paper examines whether the export decision of firms is affected by their ownership structure, specifically it looks at whether family control is an obstacle to entering foreign markets. The underlying assumption is that family firms are risk averse. Risk aversion may be an obstacle to...
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n this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows. We exploit the very favorable set … and imports, much larger for the latter. The pro-trade effects of immigrants tend to decline in space, and even turn … negative when large ethnic communities are located too far away from a specific province (via a trade-diversion effect …
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While most offshoring literature focus on the effects on relative wages, other implications do not receive the necessary attention. This paper investigates effects on the industries’ skill ratio. It sum-marizes the empirical literature, discusses theoretical findings, and provides first...
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This paper develops a two-sector, two-factor trade model with labor market frictions in which workers search for a job … also when they are employed. On the job search (OJS) is a key ingredient to explain the response to trade liberalization of … from less productive firms that pay lower wages to more productive ones. Following a trade liberalization the traditional …
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We use linked employer-employee data from Italy to explore the relationship between exports and wages. Our empirical strategy exploits the 1992 devaluation of the Italian Lira, which represented a large and unforeseen shock to Italian firms’ incentives to export. The results indicate that the...
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