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Why trucks jump: Offshoring and product characteristics

McCalman, Phillip; Spearot, Alan - In: Journal of International Economics 91 (2013) 1, pp. 82-95

domestic and foreign plants. To do so, we examine the first wave of light-truck offshoring to Mexico that occurred due to … and Mexico for the same models of light trucks. Using a new dataset that details the extent of offshoring and domestic … “inshoring” the more complex varieties while offshoring the less complex versions. …

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Tariffs, social status, and gender in India

Anukriti, S.; Kumler, Todd J. - 2014

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of...

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Export and labor market outcomes : a supply chain perspective : evidence from Vietnam

Kokas, Deeksha; López Acevedo, Gladys; Vu, Ha - 2023

Are the labor market changes from exports specific to exporting industries, or do they dissipate throughout the economy? To analyze this question, we study the case of Vietnam. Vietnam exported a total of $356B, making it the number 18 exporter in the world in 2021. Recent studies show provinces...

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Trade liberalization and local labor markets in Morocco

Roche Rodriguez, Jaime Alfonso; Robertson, Raymond; … - 2023

Morocco's trade liberalization policies have promoted economic progress over the past two decades. However, effects on Morocco's local labor market outcomes vary. By combining three complementary approaches and modeling techniques, this paper estimates: (i) how trade agreements have increased...

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Welfare in models of trade with heterogeneous firms

Janiak, Alexandre (contributor) - 2008

I illustrate that the welfare improvement property of the Melitz model is due to the shape of the aggregate labor demand curve, which slopes upwards. By slightly changing some assumptions in the model, this curve may have a negative slope. In this case, increases in aggregate productivity result...

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Occupational choice, aggregate productivity, and trade

Meckl, Jürgen; Weigert, Benjamin - 2011

We propose occupational decisions of heterogeneous individuals as an alternative mechanism of explaining the distribution of firm productivities emphasized by empirical studies. Thus, we integrate the frameworks of Melitz (2003), and of Manasse and Turrini (2001) that establish the theoretical...

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Economies of scale in the Tunisian industries

Heshmati, Almas; Haouas, Ilham - 2011

To date, empirical investigations of trade liberalization under the conditions of increasing returns to scale (IRS) and imperfect competition (IC) have either assumed or imposed the market and productive structures necessary for such a model. However, of the recent IRS/IC models used to simulate...

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Trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms : the role of country asymmetries

Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - 2010

This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...

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How deep is your love? : a quantitative spatial analysis of the transatlantic trade partnership

Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael - 2015

This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a new quantitative spatial trade model and to use an...

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Firm dynamics and residual inequality in open economies

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Impullitti, Giammario; Prat, Julien - 2014

Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....

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