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The impact of international trade on wages

Feenstra, Robert C. (ed.) - 2000

an increasing share of available income, while low-skilled workers have seen an absolute decline in real wages. How and … escalation of high-skill wages. This collection brings together innovative new ideas and data sources in order to provide more … on U.S. wages. This timely volume offers a thorough appraisal of the wage distribution predicament, examining the …

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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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Survival of the Best Fit : Competition from Low Wage Countries and the (Uneven) Growth of US Manufacturing Plants

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2002

We examine the relationship between import competition from low wage countries and the reallocation of US manufacturing from 1977 to 1997. Both employment and output growth are slower for plants that face higher levels of low wage import competition in their industry. As a result, US...

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Lobbying Behind the Frontier

Bombardini, Matilde; Cutinelli-Rendina, Olimpia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This chapter investigates the non-market response of firms to international trade shocks increasing the level of competition in U.S. industries. Lobbying expenditures increase as a consequence of import changes related to the China shock. The effect on lobbying is not homogeneous across firms...

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Trade policy issues and empirical analysis : [papers from a conference held by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 13 - 14, 1987]

Baldwin, Robert E. (ed.) - 1988 - 1. [print.]

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The Employment and Wage Effects of Import Competition in the United States

Grossman, Gene M. - 1982

sensitivity of employment to the domestic price of imports varies significantly across these nine sectors, whereas industry wages … of unemployment and wages so generated and the actual, historical paths are attributed to the effects of import … in wages in two industries, among the nine studied …

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US Trade and Wages : The Misleading Implications of Conventional Trade Theory

Edwards, Lawrence - 2010

is widely applied. It serves as the basis for estimating the impact of trade on wages using two-sector simulation models …

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Wages, Employment, Training and Job Attachment in Low Wage Labor Marketsfor Women

Gustman, Alan L. - 1986

This paper analyzes economic behavior and the effects of training and income support policies in the low wage labor market for women. The opportunity set takes account of nonlinearities and discontinuities associated with career interruption, part-time work, and government programs. There are...

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Retirement Implications of a Low Wage Growth, Low Real Interest Rate Economy

Scott, Jason - 2019

progressivity as average wages fall along with individual wages …

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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs : Evidence from the United States Using a Bunching Estimator

Cengiz, Doruk - 2019

, we estimate the effect of the minimum wage on the frequency distribution of hourly wages using 138 prominent state … no evidence of disemployment when we consider higher levels of minimum wages. However, we do find some evidence of …

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