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Employment and exchange rates : the role of openness and technology

Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - 2009

Real exchange rate movements are important drivers of the reallocation of resources between sectors of the economy. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition and with the technology level. This paper...

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The real exchange rate and external competitiveness in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia

Brixiova, Zuzana; Égert, Balázs; Hadj Amor, Thouraya - 2013

stagnant export shares. The limited export competitiveness has hampered external demand, growth and employment. Applying, for …

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Competitiveness at the country-sector level : new measures based on global value chains

Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2018

We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...

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The China syndrome : local labor market effects of import competition in the United States

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2013

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and instrumenting for U.S. imports using changes in Chinese imports by...

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Foreign competition and domestic innovation : evidence from U.S. patents

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2019

Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how...

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Importing political polarization? : the electoral consequences of rising trade exposure

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2020

Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of political expression and results of congressional and presidential elections spanning the period 2000 through 2016, we find strong though not definitive evidence of an ideological...

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Export take-offs and acceleration : unpacking cross-sector linkages in the evolution of comparative advantage

Bahar, Dany; Rosenow, Samuel; Stein, Ernesto; Wagner, … - 2018

The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using … international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries … labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …

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International trade and job polarization : evidence at the worker level

Keller, Wolfgang; Utar, Hâle - 2023

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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Measuring and changing control : women's empowerment and targeted transfers

Almås, Ingvild; Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio P.; … - 2016

This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification strategy to measure women's willingness to pay to receive cash transfers instead of their partner receiving it. We apply this among women living in poor households in urban Macedonia....

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The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures : evidence from a randomized experiment

Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Carneiro, Pedro; … - 2016

This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of Macedonia, offering cash transfers to poor households, conditional on having their children...

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