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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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When banana import restrictions lead to exports : a tale of cyclones and quarantine policies
Chia Chiun Ko; Frijters, Paul - 2014
banana producers accepting losses in normal years, off-set by large profits in years when cyclones destroy a large proportion … of the banana plants because of sufficiently low elasticity of demand. Using the cyclones of 2006 and 2011 as exogenous … have hit and re-planted banana plants have become productive. Combining the elasticity estimates with information on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250023
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Greasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms’ international sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937886
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Trade, quality upgrading and wage inequality in the Mexican manufacturing sector
Verhoogen, Eric (contributor) - 2007
This paper proposes a new mechanism linking trade and wage inequality in developing countries the quality-upgrading mechanism and investigates its empirical implications in panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants. In a model with heterogeneous plants and quality-differentiated goods, only the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591494
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Manufacturing employment and exchange rates in the Portuguese economy : the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity
Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - 2010
In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity in the determination of the effect of the exchange rate on employment in Portugal. We develop an index that allows us to measure labour market flexibility at the sector level. This index shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153576
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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518149
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North-South technology spillovers : the relative impact of openness and foreign R&D
Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor); Wang, Yanling (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D...
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