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-female wage gap surrounding an exogenous policy change in the European Union that corresponded to a discrete increase in apparel-export … increase in apparel export prices, consistent with trade theory, and that the change estimated with a cross-section IV approach … robust to incorporating input-output table data to account for the contributions of non-traded industries to export markets. …
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This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of … 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 …
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workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the … different data producers should be widely accessible for research. -- qualification of workforce ; average wage ; export ; firm …
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The answer to competition from emerging countries with low wage costs must be very different according to the affected sector. We need to draw a distinction between manufacturing industry and services that can be relocated and other sectors: consumer services, retail, construction, most business...
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are also reflected in export performances and sales of innovative products. Our results go partially against other …
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We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected differently than workers on permanent contracts. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic...
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) through which immigrants generate increased export flows from the regions in which they settle to their countries of origin … relationship going from diasporas and immigrant entrepreneurs towards export flows. Both the size of the diaspora and the number of …'s overall competitiveness and export flows towards all potential destinations. …
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We employ employer-employee matched data from Denmark and utilize plausibly exogenous variation in the rise of import competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising import competition has led to reduced employment in...
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balanced trade with China (such as Germany and Switzerland). Drawing on a new analysis for the UK, we further show that trade …
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