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the equilibrium with an informal sector. -- offshoring ; informal sector ; maquiladoras ; trade and labor markets ; Mexico …
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We study how technology adoption and changes in global value chain (GVC) integration jointly affect labor shares and business function specialization in a sample of 14 manufacturing industries in 14 European countries in 1999-2011. Our main contribution is to highlight the indirect effect of...
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We investigate the effects of US-imposed trade sanctions on the global trade patterns of sanctioned countries by … partial and complete US sanctions lead to significant reductions in bilateral trade between the US and target countries as … well as between target and third countries. A unit increase in the intensity of complete trade sanctions in place reduces …
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-parametric formulas, we measure how trade modifies the deadweight loss of markups through two channels: (1) trade-induced change in markup … zero-sum welfare effects similar to implicit tariffs that tilt the terms of trade in favor of countries exporting high … compile new data on global profit ownership. Our findings reveal that trade has greatly reshaped the global incidence of …
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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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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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on the volume of intermediate goods trade and the number of varieties produced are mutually reinforcing, resulting in a …
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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 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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