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The repeated failure of Ireland's potato crop in the late 1840s led to a major famine and a surge in migration to the … descriptive analysis of mobility for the famine-era Irish sons indicates that more Catholic surnames and birth in Ireland were …
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We use micro data for Ireland to estimate how export participation and the export revenue of incumbent exporters … respond to tariffs and real exchange rates. Both participation and revenue, but especially revenue, are more responsive to … tariffs than to real exchange rates. Our estimates translate into an elasticity of aggregate exports with respect to tariffs …
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"The objective of the paper is to answer an often-asked question : if tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two large data bases of wage inequality that have...
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predicts that a fall in output tariffs lowers wages at import-competing firms, but boosts wages at exporting firms. Similarly …, a fall in input tariffs raises wages at import-using firms relative to those at firms that only source locally. Using …
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The objective of the paper is to answer an often-asked question : if tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two large data bases of wage inequality that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467641
nominal tariffs on firms' productivity levels is identified. After controlling for the endogeneity of nominal tariffs, the … estimated coefficient for tariffs in the productivity equation turns out to be negative. Second, a measure of tariffs on inputs … is added in the productivity equation. The coefficient associated with tariffs on inputs is also negative, and the …
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In a standard multi-sector, heterogeneous-firm trade model the effect of tariffs on entry, especially in the presence … are a consequence of the reductions in MFN tariffs (the Uruguay Round); and that for some countries, particularly some … would gain from the elimination of tariffs have a strong rank correlation with those that gain from a negative optimal …
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We study empirically and theoretically the dynamic effects of the unilateral reduction in import tariffs undertaken by …, tariffs, imbalances, and input-output linkages in the late 1980s. We introduce an anticipated phased out reform into the model …
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This research provides a single explanation for: (i) the persistence of malnutrition and (ii) the increased prevalence of metabolic disease (diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease) among normal weight individuals with economic development. Our model is based on a set point for BMI or...
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This study constructs a large new dataset to investigate whether state policy led to ethnic Ukrainians experiencing higher mortality during the 1932-33 Soviet Great Famine. All else equal, famine (excess) mortality rates were positively associated with ethnic Ukrainian population share across...
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