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On trade policy preference and offshoring ties
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2022
This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471205
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Institutions and development : the interaction between trade regime and political system
Falkinger, Josef (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002182071
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Labor market regulation, international trade and footloose capital
Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2017
I examine the effects of globalization in countries where the employed workers support the unemployed and the governments control wages by regulating the workers' relative bargaining power. I use a general oligopolistic equilibrium model of two integrated countries with two inputs: labor and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596113
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How do households adjust to trade liberalization? : evidence from China's WTO accession
Dai, Mi; Huang, Wei; Zhang, Yifan - 2018
We investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on household behaviors and outcomes in urban China, exploiting … regional variation in the exposure to tariff cuts resulting from WTO entry. Regions that initially specialized in industries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820802
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Trade liberalization and child labor in China
Zhao, Liqiu; Wang, Fei; Zhao, Zhong - 2016
after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether trade liberalization affects the incidence of … associated with the rising incidence of child labor in China. A one percentage point decrease in average export tariffs raises …This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571939
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314284
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Trade liberalization and the gender employment gap in China
Wang, Feicheng; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Zhou, Minghai - 2020
in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, we relate prefecture-level employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271498
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Import competition and informal employment: empirical evidence from China
Wang, Feicheng; Liang, Zhe; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2021
China. We employ a local labour market approach to construct a regional measure of exposure to import tariffs by exploiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604357
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Do non-tariff barriers to trade save American jobs and wages?
Leonardi, Marco; Meschi, Elena - 2021
Before the recent rebound due to the US-China trade war, tariffs on international trade were being progressively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484526
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A dual policy paradox : why have trade and immigration policies always differed in labor-scarce economies?
Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor);  … - 2006
Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328062