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Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more likely to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize...
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This paper re-examines the relationship between trade intensity and business cycle synchronization for 21 OECD … capturing specialisation, financial integration, and similarity of economic policies. We confirm that trade intensity affects … similar impact on business cycle synchronization as trade intensity. Finally, we find that the effect of trade on business …
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It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
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This paper studies the implications for wage inequality of two distinct forms of globalisation, namely trade and …-ante homogeneous workers, heterogeneous firms and search and matching frictions into a multi-region model of trade and FDI with … interplay between trade, FDI and labour market institutions. …
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This paper attempts to build up a Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of production and trade where capital is introduced … trade only nominal factor prices. International financial flows will not alter pattern of trade, but movement of labour and … much more than before. Introducing finance affects trade patterns with unemployment and especially with imperfect credit …
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This paper introduces finance or credit in the Dixit-Stiglitz-Krugman (DSK) model of international trade. It identifies … output per variety. Thus, availability of finance will determine a specific trade pattern between richer and poorer nations … indeterminate pattern of trade. …
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attitudes towards globalization barriers (trade and immigration) and how important these attitudes are in how people vote. In … line with the existing results in the literature, we find that more educated and richer voters support freer trade and more … immigration. We also find that conservative voters in Sweden are more likely to prefer freer trade but higher immigration barriers …
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Migrants shape market access: first, they reduce international trade frictions and second, they change the geographical … exports and imports to immigrant population and quantifies these effects in a model of inter- and intra-national trade and … import (export) trade costs by 7% (2.5%) on average and decreases US natives' real wages by more than 2%. States with higher …
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on the volume of intermediate goods trade and the number of varieties produced are mutually reinforcing, resulting in a …
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I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant … trade in IT and has become one of the major foreign suppliers of IT. I merge these data with the EU KLEMS database and EU … be attributed to the trade with China. …
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