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Is the pattern of trade correlated with cross-sector differences in job turnover? Theoretically, external shocks feed …
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, regulation of trade and investment flows, and gender- sensitive public sector spending.. …
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Growing shares of international trade flows consist of intermediate and unfinished goods shipped from one country to … of international fragmentation of production in Europe, looking at how it affects relative labor demand. Models of trade … change in the relative factor intensities of the affected industries. We use international trade data specifically related to …
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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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This paper explores the possibility that unregulated FDI flows are causally implicated in the decline in labor productivity growth in semi- industrialized economies. These effects are hypothesized to operate through the negative impact of firm mobility on worker bargaining power and thus...
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terms of external trade volatility. Keeping information on exports and imports as external factors allowed to estimate a …
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This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty … agreement with China on sectoral and aggregate employment rates. According to this, trade with the PRC did not have a … significant effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization like the nineties. …
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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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countries. We look at the labor market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical … framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply effects. We find that international trade did not contribute to Italy …’s labor market problems. Indeed, given that Italy holds quite a distinct pattern of trade specialization, compared to other …
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We incorporate culture into a standard trade model in two distinct ways. In the ¡°cultural affinity from work¡± model … due to cultural concerns can reduce the national benefits from trade liberalization. Complete movements to free trade will …
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