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Real Exchange Rate, Foreign Trade and Employment: Evidence from China

Zeng, Xiangquan; Yuxue, Cui; Shisong, Qing; Yumei, Yang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Coordination of macro-economic development and employment is an essential issue for China's social development, which …

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The Rise of the East and the Far East: German Labor Markets and Trade Integration

Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe …

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International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China

Sun, Peng; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

the country to target the world as its market. This research discusses the role of international trade in China's economic … growth. It starts with a review of conceptions as well as the evolution of China's international trade regime and the policy … that China has taken in favor of trade sectors. In addition, China's international trade performance is analyzed …

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Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy

Cosar, A. Kerem; Guner, Nezih; Tybout, James - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The...

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Financial Liberalization and the Relationship-Specificity of Exports

Defever, Fabrice; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We investigate the causal impact of equity market liberalizations in the period 1980‐1997 on sectoral export performance across 91 countries. The increased availability of external finance has boosted trade of industries that intensively use relationship‐specific inputs, and lowered exports...

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Isolating the Network Effect of Immigrants on Trade

Aleksynska, Mariya; Peri, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business networks, and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade. Using cross-sectional data and controlling for the overall bilateral stock of migrants, the share of migrants employed...

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Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Impullitti, Giammario; Prat, Julien - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....

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Ethnic Networks and International Trade

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...

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National Champion versus Foreign Takeover

Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare maximizing domestic competition agency which may or may not be prone to "economic patriotism". A...

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Employment and Exchange Rates: The Role of Openness and Technology

Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Real exchange rate movements are important drivers of the reallocation of resources between sectors of the economy. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition and with the technology level. This paper...

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