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Trade, Firms, and Wages: Theory and Evidence
Amiti, Mary; Davis, Donald R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
How does trade liberalization affect wages? This is the first paper to consider in theory and data how the impact of … final and intermediate input tariff cuts on workers’ wages varies with the global engagement of their firm. Our model … predicts that a fall in output tariffs lowers wages at import-competing firms, but boosts wages at exporting firms. Similarly …
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Trade, Trade Policy and Poverty: What Are The Links?
Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
employment and wages); changes in government revenue and expenditure; changes in risk and vulnerability; effects on economic …
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Trade and the Skill Premium Puzzle with Capital Market Imperfections
Bonfatti, Roberto; Ghatak, Maitreesh - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
An interesting puzzle is that trade liberalization in the 1980s and 1990s has been associated with a sharp increase in the skill premium in both developed and developing countries. This is in contrast with neoclassical theory, according to which trade should increase the relative return of the...
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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Edmonds, Eric V; Pavcnik, Nina; Topalova, Petia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Does trade policy influence schooling and child labor decisions in low income countries? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in child labor. These trends were...
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Trade Liberalization and Enterprise Restructuring in Bulgaria, 1992-4
Djankov, Simeon; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
This paper empirically tests the link between trade openness and enterprise restructuring in Bulgaria. It belongs to a recent line of work in the empirical trade literature that investigates the effects of trade policy on firm behaviour. The trade liberalization following the 1991 economic...
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Catching Up With Eastern Europe? The European Union's Mediterranean Free Trade Initiative
Djankov, Simeon; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
This paper discusses the potential role of a Euro-Mediterranean Agreement (EMA) in helping Middle East and North African governments implement structural economic reforms. The arguments for and against preferential liberalization are summarized, identifying a number of necessary conditions for...
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Innovation and Trade in the Presence of Credit Constraints
Foellmi, Reto; Legge, Stefan; Tiemann, Alexa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper examines how trade liberalization affects investments in R&D at the firm level. In a model where entrepreneurs are heterogeneous in their wealth endowment, they rely differently on external funds. In the presence of capital market imperfections, this implies heterogeneous access to...
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How Remote is the Offshoring Threat?
Head, Keith; Mayer, Thierry; Ries, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Advances in communication technology make it possible for workers in India to supply business services to head offices located anywhere. This has the potential to put high-wage workers in direct competition with much lower paid Indian workers. Service trade, however, like goods trade, is subject...
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Trade Liberalization and the Wage Skill Premium: Evidence from Indonesia
Amiti, Mary; Cameron, Lisa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
In this paper, we analyze the effect of reducing import tariffs on intermediate inputs and final goods on the wage skill premium within firms in Indonesia – a country with a high share of unskilled workers. We present a new finding that reducing input tariffs reduces the wage skill premium...
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Globalization: A Woman’s Best Friend? Exporters and the Gender Wage Gap
Bøler, Esther Ann; Javorcik, Beata; Ulltveit-Moe, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
While the impact of globalization on income inequality has received a lot of attention,little is known about its effect on the gender wage gap (GWG). This study argues that there is a systematic difference in the GWG between exporting firms and non-exporters. By the virtue of being exposed to...
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