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A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much …
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robot use with a measure of workers’ replaceability by robots, which is based on the tasks prevalent in industries before …Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots’ potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their … economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a …
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How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate …
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An important element of the cost of distance is time taken in delivering final and intermediate goods. We argue that time costs are qualitatively different from direct monetary costs such as freight charges. The difference arises because of uncertainty. Unsynchronised deliveries can disrupt...
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This paper studies cross-country patterns of economic growth from the viewpoint of income distribution dynamics. Such a perspective raises new empirical and theoretical issues in growth analysis: the profound empirical regularity is an \emerging twin peaks" in the cross-sectional distribution,...
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This article estimates the effect of visa restrictions on bilateral trade flows and foreign direct investment (FDI …, which is detrimental to trade and FDI. Employing a standard gravity-type model in a global dyadic country sample, I estimate … place by the partner country, this lowers bilateral trade and FDI by up to 19 and 25 per cent, respectively. If both …
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The article explores the link between international economic integration and technological capability in colonial India. The example of the iron industry shows that many new ideas and skills flowed into India from Europe, but not all met with commercial success. The essay suggests a reason why....
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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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of functions, but whose central purpose is trade. …
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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