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Trade, Poverty and Employment: The Social Consequences of Integration with China

Castro, Lucio; Saslavsky, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

, income distribution, welfare and employment. The case of Argentina, in particular, is investigated. To this end, partial … used for the first time to estimate labor demand-output and wage elasticities in order to estimate the effects of an … agreement with China on sectoral and aggregate employment rates. According to this, trade with the PRC did not have a …

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Tango with the Dragon: Employment Effects of Trade Integration with China. The Case of Argentina

Castro, Lucio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper estimates the effects of trade integration between China and Mercosur on employment. The case of Argentina … labor demand elasticities in order to estimate the effects of trade with China on the employment rate. According to this …, trade with China did not have a significant effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization …

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Labor Rents, Ajustment Costs, and the Cost of U.S. Steel Trade Restraints in the 1980s

Scott, Robert E.; Blecker, Robert A. - EconWPA - 1996

Recent studies have compared labor losses in import-competing industries with the costs of protection and found that those losses are not large enough to justify trade restraints. This study develops a new technique for estimating the costs and benefits of protection and provides a complete...

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China's Changing Competitive Position: Lessons from a Unit-Labor- Cost-Based REER

Dullien, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2005

This paper calculates a unit labor-cost based real effective exchange rate for China for the period 1987-2002. It examines carefully which data sources can be used given the known limitations of Chinese data and constructs to them together with internationally available unit labor cost...

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Patterns of International Fragmentation of Production and Implications for the Labor Markets

Helg, Rodolfo; Tajoli, Lucia - EconWPA - 2004

Growing shares of international trade flows consist of intermediate and unfinished goods shipped from one country to another to combine manufacturing or services activities at home with those performed abroad. This configuration of the productive structure has been named “internationally...

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Gender Inequality in a Globalizing World

Seguino, Stephanie - EconWPA - 2005

that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender-wage …

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Monitor koffie. Overproductie drukt koffieprijs

Haas, Ralph de - EconWPA - 2002

The current slump in world coffee prices is mainly due to a structural oversupply. Instead of introducing price measures, measures aimed at reducing this excess supply would be a more efficient method of increasing coffee producers'incomes.

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Trade Liberalisation and Poverty in Nepal A Computable General Equilibrium Micro Simulation Analysis

Cockburn, John - EconWPA - 2004

with income level, resulting in rising income inequality. …

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Korea and the World Trade Organization: Problems and Prospects

McGee, Robert W.; Yoon, Yeomin - EconWPA - 1998

The World Trade Organization, which came into existence at the conclusion of the Uruguay Round, is in charge of administering a plethora of new trade rules. The main thrust of the new rules is to reduce or abolish tariffs and quotas on a wide range of products. Some tariffs and quotas were...

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EXPORT DIVERSIFICATION IN LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES: AN INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE AFTER DOHA

Bonaglia, Federico; Fukasaku, Kichiro - EconWPA - 2003

This paper discusses major policy issues related to commodity dependence and export diversification in low-income countries. Contrary to some widely-held view, it argues that natural resources are not necessarily a ‘curse’ that condemns low-income countries to underdevelopment but can...

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