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Skills, exports, and the wages of five million Latin American workers
Brambilla, Irene - 2010
inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus … are important in explaining skill premiums. The analysis also suggests that the incidence of exports within industries … underlying industry and country characteristics that explain skill premiums. In particular, higher sectoral exports are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394540
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How Did the Dollar Peg Fail in Asia?
Ito, Takatoshi - 1999
In this paper we have constructed a theoretical model in which Asian firms maximize their profit, competing with Japanese and US firms in their markets. The duopoly model is used to determine export prices and volumes in response to the exchange rate fluctuations vis-…-vis the Japanese yen and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471508
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In Search of Substitution Between Foreign Production and Exports
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 1999
Are foreign production and exports substitutes or complements? The continuing globalization of production makes the … effect between affiliate production and exports with Japanese automobile parts for the U.S. market. I also test for and find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471633
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Exporting and Productivity
Bernard, Andrew B. - 1999
role in increasing productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing. Contemporaneous levels of exports and productivity are indeed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471659
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Learning to Use Trade Agreements
Krishna, Kala - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while paying zero or preferential tariffs as long as Rules of Origin (ROOs) are met. Meeting them is costly not only in terms of production costs but also in terms of documentation costs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012659997
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On the Persistence of the China Shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Abstract We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a decade past its culmination. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660079
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Electoral Violence and Supply Chain Disruptions in Kenya's Floriculture Industry
Ksoll, Christopher; Macchiavello, Rocco; Morjaria, Ameet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-election violence as an example. The violence induced a large negative supply shock that reduced exports primarily through workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629517
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Opposing firm-level Responses to the China Shock : Horizontal Competition Versus Vertical Relationships?
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Lequien, Matthieu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
exports: a horizontal shock affecting firms selling goods that compete with similar imported Chinese goods, and a vertical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616643
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A Search and Learning Model of Export Dynamics
Eaton, Jonathan; Eslava, Marcela; Jinkins, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Exporting abroad is much harder than selling at home, and overcoming hurdles to exporting takes time. Our goal is to identify specific barriers to exporting and to measure their importance. We develop a model of firm-level export dynamics that features costly customer search, network effects in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599390
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Cross-Product and Cross-Market Adjustments Within Multiproduct Firms : Evidence from Antidumping Actions
Bao, Xiaohua; Blonigen, Bruce A.; Yu, Zhi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Multiproduct firms are responsible for the vast majority of global trade. A prior literature examines how multiproduct firms respond to trade liberalizations that simultaneously affect all of the firms' products and inputs. In contrast, our study uses Chinese firm-product-level export data to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696430