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The China shock : learning from labor market adjustment to large changes in trade
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2016
China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets adjust to trade shocks. Alongside the heralded consumer benefits of expanded trade are substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452672
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Trade liberalization and employment effects in Ukraine
Christev, Atanas (contributor); Kupets, Olga (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper addresses the important issue of the effects of trade liberalization on labor market job flows. It studies the case of Ukraine where we view the sudden openness of the economy to trade as a quasi-natural experiment. We use disaggregated data on manufacturing industries and customs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003226025
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Factor endowment and market size in EU-CEE trade : would human capital change the actual quality trade patterns?
Ferragina, Anna Maria (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002042720
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Stages of diversification in a neoclassical world
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - 2013
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221543
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The NAFTA tide: lifting the larger and better boats
Calderón Madrid, Angel (contributor);  … - 2007
We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the connection between plants’ responses to changes in the economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646696
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International job search : Mexicans in and out of the US
Rendón, Sílvio (contributor);  … - 2007
It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration are determined by … find that migration practically disappears if Mexico has American arrival rates while employed. Doubling migration costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646713
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Migrant networks, migrant selection, and high school graduation in Mexico
Miranda, Alfonso (contributor) - 2007
in Mexico once unobserved heterogeneity is accounted for. Bivariate random effects dynamic probit models for cluster data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646722
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North-South trade liberalization and returns to skill in the south : the case of Mexico
Hazarika, Gautam (contributor); Otero, Rafael (contributor) - 2008
This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico …. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model …, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of low-skill workers, that is, lowered returns to skill in Mexico. Analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771056
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Adding rungs to the exporting ladder : plant-level exporting dynamics and total factor productivity growth
Voicu, Alexandru (contributor) - 2008
We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the dynamics of plant-level exporting activity at both the extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity growth. We find that exporting activity has a ladder...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771885
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Aid and migration : an analysis of the impact of progresa on the timing and size of labour migration
Angelucci, Manuela (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002115241