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Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the … labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System … provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify the effect of reducing trade barriers on the relative demand for …
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Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the … labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System … provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify the effect of reducing trade barriers on the relative demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745883
Manufactures, and transaction-level trade data, we find that rising import competition from China and other developing economies …-proportions-inspired work on offshoring and heterogeneous firms in trade, we build industry-level measures of import competition. Combining …This paper examines the role of international trade, and specifically imports from low-wage countries, in determining …
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This paper studies the impact of NAFTA on informality and real wages in Mexico. Using a dynamic industry model with … inducing the most productive formal firms to engage in trade. The model also predicts market share reallocations towards the … most productive firms, and an increase in real wages due to the increased labour demand by these firms. Using data on …
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A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much … import competition experienced slower growth in manufacturing wages and in-migration rates between 2000 and 2010, and greater … concern about the losers from rising import competition in manufacturing, but little attention on the winners from growing …
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Recent theories of firm heterogeneity emphasize between-firm wage differences as a new mechanism through which trade … 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 …
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on wage inequality. I develop a simple model in which an increase in product market competition increases returns to … relative wages increase with competition using a large panel of United Kingdom workers with complete work histories. I identify …This paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and …
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structure of wages. Ceteris paribus, a higher share of employees in a firm covered by industry-wide or firm-level contracts is … associated with higher wages. Yet, individual bargaining coverage in a covered firm shows a negative impact both on the wage …
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wage brackets which would operate as minimum wages for different groups of workers. …
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Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the decade of economic growth which ended with the recession of 2008. PP was also associated with...
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