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employment expansion, an effect quite different from the source of gains from trade in the conventional approach. Second, we show … that with firm heterogeneity an increase in one country's minimum wage triggers firm exit in both countries and thus harms … workers at home and abroad. In an extension to our baseline model, we illustrate that offshoring production from the high-wage …
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. An empirical application indicates that low-wage earners in the US from 1990--2007 were significantly more affected by … increased Chinese import competition than high-wage earners. Our approach applies to a broad range of settings in labor …
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industry prices, then expenditures on computers becomes the most important cause of the increased wage inequality, and have a …
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vulnerable industries. We find evidence of both effects, dramatically lowering wage growth for blue-collar workers in the most …
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This paper examines Bertil Ohlin's analysis of trade policy and factor rewards in the context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century United States. A leading question of the day was whether labor could benefit from protection. Ohlin suspected that labor could benefit from protection...
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This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and uses the estimates of this empirical analysis to evaluate the welfare effect of trade reform. The analysis proceeds in three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used...
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of their employment industry affects their trade policy preferences, in contrast to previous analysis using these data …
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Obtaining lower generalized system of preferences (GSP) tariffs requires meeting costly Rules of Origin (ROOs). Growing coffee in the shade is more costly, but yields a price premium. This paper analyzes the effects of such restrictions in a general equilibrium setting and shows that such...
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The two models of international trade with developed factor markets -- Heckscher-Ohlin and Specific Factors -- both suffer significant defects. For example, their predictions about the patterns of domestic production and international trade are for the most part either indeterminate or uselessly...
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rising wage inequality, focusing on the 1985 Mexican trade reform. Wage inequality in Mexico rose after the reform, which is … reform on employment in developing countries. Finally, we analyze evidence on the relationship between trade reform and …
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