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Harrison, Ann - 2010

The 1990's dealt a blow to traditional Heckscher-Ohlin analysis of the relationship between trade and income inequality, as it became clear that rising inequality in low- income countries and other features of the data were inconsistent with that model. As a result, economists moved away from...

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Some Simple Analytics of Trade and Labor Mobility

Chaudhuri, Shubham - 2007

We study a simple, tractable model of labor adjustment in a trade model that allows us to analyze the economy's dynamic response to trade liberalization. Since it is a neoclassical market-clearing model, we can use duality techniques to study the equilibrium, and despite its simplicity a rich...

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Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment : Theory

Cameron, Stephen - 2007

We construct a dynamic, stochastic rational expectations model of labor reallocation within a trade model that is designed so that its key parameters can be estimated for trade policy analysis. A key feature is the presence of time-varying idiosyncratic moving costs faced by workers. As a...

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Trade Policy and Wage Inequality : A Structural Analysis with Occupational and Sectoral Mobility

Artuç, Erhan - 2012

A number of authors have argued that a worker's occupation of employment is at least as important as the worker's industry of employment in determining whether the worker will be hurt or helped by international trade. We investigate the role of occupational mobility on the effects of trade...

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FDI and Inequality in Vietnam : An Approach with Census Data

McLaren, John - 2016

We investigate the effects of inward FDI on income distribution and absolute living standards in Vietnam using census data from 1989-2009. We compute the number of employees of foreign establishments in each of Vietnam's provinces for each year, and use that as a measure of local FDI. We...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Global Value Chains, and Labor Rights : No Race-to-the-Bottom?

Im, Hye-jun; McLaren, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

that an increase in globalization in the sense of lower transaction costs has no effect on equilibrium workers' rights, but … effect of globalization on labor rights is ambiguous. Empirically, we find little evidence that globalization drives …

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Trade, Offshoring, and the Invisible Handshake

Karabay, Bilgehan - 2009

We study the effect of globalization on the volatility of wages and worker welfare in a model in which risk is … allocated through long-run employment relationships (the 'invisible handshake'). Globalization can take two forms: International … raising the volatility of their wages. We thus formalize, but also sharply circumscribe, a common critique of globalization …

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Global Value Chains and Labor Standards : The Race-to-the-Bottom Problem

Im, Hye-jun; McLaren, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We ask how globalization affects a government's incentives to set labor standards for its workers. In a stylized … with globalization than it would under autarky, because labor standards are a normal good and the general increase in … incomes from globalization increases demand for them. We call this the effect of `globalization in the large.' Second, if more …

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