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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 patterns of job loss in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2007. Motivated by intuitions from factor-proportions-inspired work on offshoring and heterogeneous firms...
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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
decreases more in industries that are relatively more export oriented. Finally, I confirm that the elimination of the Mexican …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746201
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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
A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much concern about the losers from rising import competition in manufacturing, but little attention on the winners from growing Chinese demand for commodities. Using census data for...
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The effect of trade on the demand for skill - evidence from the interstate highway system
Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745495
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The effect of trade on the demand for skill - evidence from the interstate highway system
Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745883
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Sources of wage inequality
Akerman, Anders; Helpman, Elhanan; Itskhoki, Oleg; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
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...
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Why is the rate of return to schooling higher for women than for men?
Dougherty, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
The rate of return to schooling appears to be nearly two percentage points greater for females than for males in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set, despite the fact that females tend to earn less, both absolutely and controlling for personal characteristics. A survey of previous...
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Unequal pay or unequal employment?: a cross-country analysis of gender gaps
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
There is evidence of a negative cross-country correlation between gender wage and employment gaps. We argue that non … become consistent with low gender wage gaps simply because low-wage women would not feature in the observed wage distribution …. We explore this idea across the US and EU countries estimating gender gaps in potential wages. We recover information on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746410
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Theories of heterogeneous firms and trade
Redding, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
This paper reviews the recent theoretical literature on heterogeneous firms and trade, whichemphasizes firm selection into international markets and reallocations of resources acrossfirms. We discuss the empirical challenges that motivated this research and its relationship totraditional trade...
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Gender discrimination and growth: theory and evidence from India
Esteve-Volart, Berta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
Gender inequality is an acute and persistent problem, especially in developing countries. This paper argues that gender … discrimination is an inefficient practice. We model gender discrimination as the complete exclusion of females from the labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071265