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The Impact of NAFTA on Prices and Competition : Evidence from Mexican Manufacturing Plants

Kikkawa, Ayumu Ken - 2019

This paper assesses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Mexican manufacturing plantsâ€™ prices and markups. We distinguish between Mexican goods that are exported and those sold domestically, and decompose their prices separately into markups and marginal costs. We then...

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NAFTA and Drug-Related Violence in Mexico

Hidalgo, Eduardo; Hornung, Erik; Selaya, Pablo - 2022

We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased …

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Putting Canada in the Penalty Box : Trade and Welfare Effects of Eliminating NAFTA

Baier, Scott L. - 2019

threat President Trump has made if the proposed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement is not passed by the U.S. Congress. We ….S. withdrawal only). Although all the member countries' standards of living fall, surprisingly the smallest economy, Mexico, is not … times that of Mexico's loss of 1.15 percent and is nearly eight times the United States' loss of 0.27 percent. The …

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Trade Liberalization Along the Firm Size Distribution : The Case of the EU-South Korea FTA

Chowdhry, Sonali; Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2021

How do firms of different sizes react to trade liberalization? Leading theories suggest that, amongst continuing exporters, lower trade costs should boost exports of smaller firms by the same or a greater rate than those of larger firms. However, studying the entry into force of the ambitious...

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Firm Heterogeneity and the Labour Market Effects of Trade Liberalisation

Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2021

This paper develops a model that incorporates workers' fair wage preferences into a general equilibrium framework with monopolistic competition between heterogeneous firms à la Melitz (2003). By assuming that the wage considered to be fair by workers depends on the productivity and thus the...

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Consequences of FTA Withdrawal : Evidence from "Uxit"

Gnutzmann, Hinnerk; Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik; Korn, … - 2021

We use a unique case study to estimate the effect of withdrawing from a free trade agreement on international trade. Lately, the political opposition to international economic cooperation has been on the rise, but little is known about how the withdrawal from a trade agreement affects trade. We...

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The Econometrics and Economics of the Employment Effects of Minimum Wages : Getting from Known Unknowns to Known Knowns

Neumark, David - 2019

I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the United States. My intent is to try to identify key questions raised in the recent literature, and some from the earlier literature, which I think hold the most promise for...

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Labor Market Effects of a Minimum Wage : Evidence from Ecuadorian Monthly Administrative Data

Choi, Jaerim; Rivadeneyra, Ivan; Ramirez, Kenia - 2021

When Ecuador raised its monthly Unified Minimum Wage from $170 to $200 in 2008, it affected 35 percent of all private sector workers. We use this unexpected minimum wage hike under former president Rafael Correa to assess the labor market impacts of the minimum wage. We use an administrative...

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The Employment Effects of a Pandemic Wage Subsidy

Smart, Michael; Kronberg, Matthew; Lesica, Josip; … - 2023

We estimate the causal effects of a pandemic-era wage subsidy program in Canada on job losses and business closures. Our estimates use administrative microdata and a regression discontinuity strategy to estimate the effects of marginal changes in the wage subsidy rate. The estimated net wage...

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Trade with Nominal Rigidities : Understanding the Unemployment and Welfare Effects of the China Shock

Rodriguez-Clare, Andres; Ulate, Mauricio; Vasquez, Jose P. - 2022

We present a dynamic quantitative trade and migration model that incorporates downward nominal wage rigidities and show how this framework can generate changes in unemployment and labor participation that match those uncovered by the empirical literature studying the “China shock.” We find...

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