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international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have …
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We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … trade shocks. High-wage workers are better able to move across employers with minimal earnings losses, and are more likely …
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The EU and the US have started negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) which …
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This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United … clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional exposure to trade competition from China. While the impacts of … technology are present throughout the United States, the impacts of trade tend to be more geographically concentrated, owing in …
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played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
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Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with industry level information on industries’ outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome the potential endogeneity bias as well as other...
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migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social … natives. Trade and both migration solutions reduce inequality between the populations of the two countries by the same amount …. In addition, trade and migration are not equivalent if social capital is present: the highest welfare is obtained with …
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its size and welfare impact, and b) examines the impact of international migration as well as the migration-trade …-South migration raises bloc size and welfare; iv) South-South migration and trade are complements under market access negotiations and …
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In a two-sector, general-equilibrium model with labor-market search frictions, we find that wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the sector with the lower (or equal) vacancy...
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Pareto optimum, labor mobility (social capital) is excessively large (depleted); iii) trade is superior to labor market …
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