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Globalization, government popularity, and the great skill divide and the great skill divide

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Guriev, Sergej; Treisman, Daniel - 2020

How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? The recent backlash against globalization renders this question extremely topical. Yet, most previous work has looked for political effects of aggregate trade flows without decomposing into particular types of...

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Shadow economies around the world : what do we know?

Schneider, Friedrich (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world : what do we really know?

Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006

"Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over the period 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing...

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How does financial globalization affect risk sharing? : Patterns and channels

Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2007

In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international risk sharing. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive empirical evaluation of the patterns of risk sharing among different groups of countries and examine how international...

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Trade shocks and the provision of local public goods

Feler, Leo; Senses, Mine Zeynep - 2016

We analyze the impact of trade-induced income shocks on the size of local government, and the provision of public services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing import competition from China experience relative declines in housing prices and business...

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No pain, no gain : the effects of exports on effort, injury, and illness

Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - 2016

Increased job effort can raise productivity and income but put workers at increased risk of illness and injury. We combine Danish data on individuals' health with Danish matched worker-firm data to understand how rising exports affect individual workers' effort, injury, and illness. We find that...

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Trade and worker deskilling

Costa, Rui; Dhingra, Swati; Machin, Stephen - 2019

This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that … occurred in any of the world's four major currencies since the collapse of Bretton Woods. Exploiting this variation, the paper … intermediate imports. This provides new direct evidence that, in the modern world of global value chains, it is changes in the cost …

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Determinants of trade margins : insights using state export data

Coughlin, Cletus Charles; Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2015

We adapt the heterogeneous firm trade models of Helpman, Melitz, and Rubinstein (2008) and Lawless (2010) to analyze extensive and intensive trade margins using state-level exports to foreign nations. Our theoretical analysis provides definitive predictions for the effects of changes in fixed...

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Does foreign entry spur innovation?

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Švejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2015

Our estimates, based on large firm-level and industry-level data sets from eighteen countries, suggest that FDI and trade have strong positive spillover effects on product and technology innovation by domestic firms in emerging markets. The FDI effect is more pronounced for firms from advanced...

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Migrant networks and trade : the Vietnamese boat people as a natural experiment

Parsons, Christopher A.; Vézina, Pierre-Louis - 2016

We provide evidence for the causal pro-trade effect of migrants and in doing so establish an important link between migrant networks and long-run economic development. To this end, we exploit a unique event in human history, i.e. the exodus of the Vietnamese Boat People to the US. This episode...

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