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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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Globalization : a woman's best friend? ; exporters and the gender wage gap

Bøler, Esther Ann; Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; … - 2015

In the absence of financial frictions, the purpose of thin capitalization rules is to limit multinational firms’ possibilities of engaging in tax planning via debt shifting. This paper analyzes the effects of thin capitalization rules in the case where firms have limited access to external...

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Globalization, gender, and the family

Keller, Wolfgang; Utar, Hâle - 2019

This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure …

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Beyond the classroom : using title IX to measure the return to high school sports

Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...

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Adieu Rabenmutter : the effect of culture on fertility, female labour supply, the gender wage gap and childcare

Borck, Rainald - 2011

This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively correlated with each other, while the gender wage gap seems...

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Women's work, housework and childcare, before and during COVID-19

Del Boca, Daniela; Oggero, Noemi; Profeta, Paola; … - 2020

Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the effect of COVID-19 on the working arrangements, housework and childcare of couples where both partners work. ties. According to our empirical estimates, changes to the amount of...

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The world's rust belts : the heterogeneous effects of deindustrialization on 1,993 cities in six countries

Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - 2023

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain … number of cities was able to adapt to the negative shock caused by deindustrialization. The U.S. has the lowest share … then seek to understand why some former manufacturing hubs recovered while others didn't. We find that deindustrialization …

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When immigrants meet exporters : a reassessment of the immigrant wage gap

Marchal, Léa; Ourens, Guzmán; Sabbadini, Giulia - 2022

We use French employer-employee data to reassess the wage gap between native and foreign workers. We find that the wage gap varies with the export intensity of the firm and the occupation of the worker. A model with heterogeneous firms and workers shows that our findings are consistent with...

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Attitudes towards globalization barriers and implications for voting : evidence from Sweden

Karakas, Leyla D.; Kim, Nam Seok; Mitra, Devashish - 2021

attitudes towards globalization barriers (trade and immigration) and how important these attitudes are in how people vote. In …. Once various economic and demographic determinants of globalization barrier preferences along with voters’ ideologies on a … more traditional electoral issues, such as trade barriers, work. Focusing on the anti-globalization Swedish Democrats, we …

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Globalization, fertility and marital behavior in a lowest-low fertility setting

Giuntella, Osea; Rotunno, Lorenzo; Stella, Luca - 2022

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on …

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