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Workers beneath the floodgates : the impact of low-wage import competition and worker's adjustment
Utar, Hâle - 2016
textile and clothing products in conjunction with China's accession to the WTO as a quasi-natural experiment and utilize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011569615
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The surprisingly swift decline of U.S. manufacturing employment
Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K. - 2014
declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … the number of firms engaged in China-U.S. trade. These results are robust to other potential explanations of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229883
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On the causes of Brexit
Ágúst Arnórsson; Gylfi Zoega - 2016
We analyse the voting pattern in the June 23rd referendum on the continued participation of the United Kingdom in the European Union and evaluate the reasons for the results. We find that regions where GDP per capita is low, a high proportion of people have low education, a high proportion is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523724
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Expecting Brexit
Dhingra, Swati; Sampson, Thomas - 2022
The Brexit vote precipitated the unravelling of the UK’s membership of the world’s deepest economic integration agreement. This paper reviews evidence on the realized economic effects of Brexit. The 2016 Brexit referendum changed expectations about future UK-EU relations. Studying its...
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Quantifying the extensive margin(s) of trade : the case of uneven European integration
Anderson, James E.; Yotov, Yoto - 2022
We propose a short-run theory of the extensive margins of trade, comprising the standard international extensive margin and a novel domestic extensive margin. The domestic extensive margin allows identification of globalization and specific policy effects not properly identified in previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285497
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A rising tide? : the local incidence of the second wave of globalization
Gray, Rowena; Wright, Greg C. - 2022
We estimate the short- and long-run local labor market impacts of the large increase in U.S. imports and exports that occurred over the 1970s. We exploit the sequential opening of overseas shipping container ports over the period, which generated discontinuous changes in U.S. trade ows. We find...
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Trade exposure and the decline in collective bargaining : evidence from Germany
Baumgarten, Daniel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2019
We analyze the effect of the increase in trade exposure induced by the rise of China and the transformation of Eastern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033340
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The trade impact of the Covid-19 pandemic
Liu, Xuepeng; Ornelas, Emanuel; Shi, Huimin - 2021
China during 2020. We find that a country's own Covid-19 deaths and lockdowns significantly reduced its imports from China …-19 deaths in the main trading partners of a country (excluding China) induces more imports from China, partially … are evaluated at their 2020 mean is, on average, a reduction of nearly 10% in imports from China. There is also …
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Cutting through the value chain : the long-run effects of decoupling the East from the West
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Mahlkow, Hendrik; Sandkamp, … - 2022
With ever-increasing political tensions between China and Russia on one side and the EU and the US on the other, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186412
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The Brexit conundrum worsens the UK's relationship with the European Union
Ryan, John T. - 2019
This paper examines the shortcomings in the UK government's Brexit negotiation strategy which reflected Prime Minister Theresa May's weak political leadership. The Prime Minister focused on securing the short-term political survival of her government amidst turbulent and fractious domestic...
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