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Morocco's trade liberalization policies coincided with macroeconomic growth over the past two decades. The relationship … between trade liberalization and individual-level labor-market outcomes, however, are not well understood. By combining three … complementary approaches and modeling techniques, this paper estimates: (i) the relationship between trade agreements and trade …
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indirectly affected by rising export demand. Furthermore, we examine potential impacts on specific worker groups, such as high …-skilled individuals and female workers. The results show that trade does not lead to the same connection with domestic labor markets in … Egypt as observed in other countries, as highlighted in the existing literature explaining the adverse effects of imports on …
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exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. We compare estimates of the …-run, general-equilibrium neoclassical trade theory. As in other studies, we find that the export shock was localized both in terms …This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of …
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increase in apparel export prices, consistent with trade theory, and that the change estimated with a cross-section IV approach … language of trade theory, are the benefits from exporting industry specific or factor specific? To analyze this question, we …-female wage gap surrounding an exogenous policy change in the European Union that corresponded to a discrete increase in apparel-export …
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We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during … economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus on the recent U.S.-China trade war. We discuss methods used to evaluate … its effects, describe its economic effects, and analyze if this increase in trade protectionism reverted the effects of …
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The various channels through which a reduction in the cost of offshoring can improve wages in a developed country are by now well understood. But does a similar reduction in the offshoring cost also benefit workers in the world's factories in developing countries? Using a parsimonious...
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of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK … and sales compared to more exposed firms. We do not find significant differences for export volumes to the UK or elsewhere …
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subsidy spurs global demand for food and confers a terms-of-trade benefit to the food-exporting nation. This might encourage … subsidization. Terms-of-trade effects wash out between trading nations; hence, any policy intervention by the two trading nations … that raises crude use must be jointly suboptimal. -- Optimal biofuel subsidy ; Pigouvian tax ; terms-of-trade ; pollution …
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Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of …
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-related) model. Findings are: i) TFP increases with education, trade, governance (ETG) and imports' R&D content, and declines with …This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007) in a new model that integrates models of trade-related and distance …
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