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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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Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...
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We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … trade shocks. High-wage workers are better able to move across employers with minimal earnings losses, and are more likely …
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Trade shocks in export markets may affect the employment composition and the organization of exporting firms. In … on firms’ organization of shocks induced by the introduction of Technical Barriers to Trade (TBTs) in exporting countries …. It relies on the Specific Trade Concern (STC) data released by the WTO to identify trade-restrictive TBT measures …
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This paper introduces a framework to study the impact of trade liberalization on wage inequality and welfare in the … trade …
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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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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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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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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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