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Cheap imports and the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs
Cooke, Abigail; Kemeny, Thomas; Rigby, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper examines the role of international trade, and specifically imports from low-wage countries, in determining …
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Winners and losers from a commodities-for-manufactures trade boom
Costa, Francisco; Garred, Jason; Pessoa, João Paulo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
rises in local wage inequality. However, in locations benefiting from rising Chinese demand, we observe higher wage growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126579
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Factor price equality and the economies of the United States
Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
We develop a methodology for identifying departures from relative factor price equality across regions that is valid under general assumptions about production, markets and factors. Application of this methodology to the United States reveals substantial and increasing deviations in relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745203
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Landing the first job: the value of intermediaries in online hiring
Stanton, Christopher; Thomas, Catherine - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
and wages at the beginning of their careers. After an initial employment period, only the best non-affiliates find future … work, but the wages of those who do find work catch up with affiliates' wages. Wage convergence is due to heightened wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126476
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Landing the first job: the value of intermediaries in online hiring
Stanton, Christopher; Thomas, Catherine - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Online markets for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract with each other directly. Despite this, intermediaries - called outsourcing agencies - have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that inexperienced workers are high quality....
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Sources of wage inequality
Akerman, Anders; Helpman, Elhanan; Itskhoki, Oleg; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
can affect wage inequality. Using linked employer-employee data for Sweden, we show that many of the stylized facts about … wage inequality found in Helpman et al. (2012) for Brazil also hold for Sweden. Much of overall wage inequality arises …Recent theories of firm heterogeneity emphasize between-firm wage differences as a new mechanism through which trade …
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The effect of trade liberalization on informality and wages: evidence from Mexico
Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
the expansion of the formal-informal wage differentials. …
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The roles of import competition and export opportunities for technical change
Steinwender, Claudia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
. There is no evidence that either mechanism leads to increased full time employment, instead full time workers seem to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011198538
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The auto-component supply chain in China and India: a benchmark study
Sutton, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which Chinese and Indian autocomponent producers have advanced towards international best practice levels of productivity and quality. The report is based on a survey of nine car manufacturers in China and six in India; a range of general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745200
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The 'emulator effect' of the Uruguay round on US regionalism
Fugazza, Marco; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
Using a detailed data set at the tariff line level, we find an emulator effect of multilateralism on subsequent regional trade agreements involving the US. We exploit the variation in the frequency with which the US has granted immediate duty free access (IDA) to its Free Trade Area partners...
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