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Spatial Linkages, Global Shocks, and Local Labor Markets : Theory and Evidence

Adão, Rodrigo - 2019

Abstract How do shocks to economic fundamentals in the world economy affect local labor markets? In a framework with a flexible structure of spatial linkages, we characterize the model-consistent shock exposure of a local market as the exogenous shift in its production revenues and consumption...

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Trade and Geography

Redding, Stephen J. - 2020

This paper reviews recent research on geography and trade. One of the key empirical findings over the last decade has been the role of geography in shaping the distributional consequences of trade. One of the major theoretical advances has been the development of quantitative spatial models that...

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Latent Exports : Almost Ideal Gravity and Zeros

Anderson, James E. - 2020

Almost Ideal gravity associates zero trade flows with variable and fixed trade cost variation in a flexible demand system. Latent trade shares between non-partners are inferred from the Tobit estimator applied to trade among 75 countries and 25 sectors in 2006. Latent Trade Bias (LTB) is the...

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Poultry in Motion : A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

Antràs, Pol - 2011

This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how and why these arrangements affect trade. Using detailed transaction level data from a U.S. based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, it begins by describing broad...

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Offshoring and Unemployment

Mitra, Devashish - 2007

In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we … offshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (cost reducing) effect of offshoring. If the … search cost is identical in the two sectors, or even if the search cost is higher in the sector which experiences offshoring …

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Offshoring and Labor Markets

Hummels, David - 2016

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … with the measurement of offshoring, focusing on the use of imported inputs that could have been produced by the importing … firm. We overview key theories related to offshoring and its labor market effects and survey three waves of the literature …

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Instrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms : Unpacking The Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters

Dippel, Christian - 2017

Instrumental variables (IV) are a common means to identify treatment effects. But standard IV methods do not allow us to unpack the complex treatment effects that arise when a treatment and its outcome together cause a second outcome of interest. For example, IV methods have been used to show...

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Task Trade between Similar Countries

Grossman, Gene M. - 2008

be performed at home or abroad, but offshoring entails costs that vary by task. In equilibrium, the tasks with the … highest offshoring costs may not be traded. Among the remainder, those with the relatively higher offshoring costs are …

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US Exports and Employment

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2017

We examine the employment responses to import competition from China and to global export expansion from the United States, both of which have been expanding strongly during the past decades. We find that although Chinese imports reduce jobs, at both the industry level and the local commuting...

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The Impact of Trade on Labor Market Dynamics

Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2015

We develop a dynamic labor search model where production and consumption take place in spatially distinct labor markets with varying exposure to domestic and international trade. The model recognizes the role of labor mobility frictions, goods mobility frictions, geographic factors, and...

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