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Trade Liberalization and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Brazil

Gaddis, Isis; Pieters, Janneke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

While there is a large literature analyzing the distributional impacts of trade reforms across the income or skill distribution, very little is known about the gender effects of trade reforms. This paper seeks to fill this gap and investigates the impact of Brazil's 1987-1994 trade...

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How Deep Is Your Love? A Quantitative Spatial Analysis of the Transatlantic Trade Partnership

Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a new quantitative spatial trade model and to use an...

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Trade Policy and Labor Services: Final Status Options for the West Bank and Gaza

Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper considers the policy options of the West Bank and Gaza (WBG) with respect to trade and the exports of labor services. It concludes that i) a non-discriminatory trade policy (NDTP) is unambiguously superior to an FTA with Israel; ii) the WBG should pursue a NDTP with all its neighbors,...

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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women

Heath, Rachel; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...

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Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector

Verhoogen, Eric A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

market, they produce higher-quality goods to appeal to richer Northern consumers, and they pay high wages to attract and … exports, upgrade quality, and raise wages relative to initially less-productive, lower-wage plants within each industry. Using … more-productive plants increased the export share of sales, white-collar wages, blue-collar wages, the relative wage of …

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The Impact of Education on the Subjective Discount Rate in Ugandan Villages

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...

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Trade Openness and the Demand for Skills: Evidence from Turkish Microdata

Meschi, Elena; Taymaz, Erol; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In this paper we report evidence on the relationship between trade openness, technology adoption and relative demand for skilled labour in the Turkish manufacturing sector, using firm-level data over the period 1980-2001. In a dynamic panel data setting using a unique database of 17,462 firms,...

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Globalization and Income Inequality

Vivarelli, Marco; Meschi, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper discusses the distributive consequences of trade flows in developing countries (DCs). On the theoretical side, we argue that the interplays between international openness and technology adoption may constitute an important mechanism leading to a possible increase of income...

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Labor Market and Globalization: A Comparison of the Latin American and the East Asian Experiences in the 1980s and 1990s

Bruno, Randolph Luca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In this paper we analyse the labor market and its relationship with globalization in two groups of countries similar in their GDP per capita levels at the beginning of the 1980s but otherwise significantly different in their economic and social structures. On the one hand we look at Argentina,...

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Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Sala, Davide - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Selling internationally requires products that resonate with an international customer base and therefore an approach to markets that is in keeping with diverse cultures (i.e., relational capital). As emphasized by international business studies, this relational capital is in turn related to the...

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