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with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to … test for cointegrating relationships corresponding to the patterns predicted by theory. We confirm episodes of expansion of …
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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...
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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...
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can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher …
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The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms' export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms' export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …
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and export exposure. We find that the rise of "the East" in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German … regions specialized in import-competing industries, both in manufacturing and beyond. Regions specialized in export … effect on employment relationships. -- international trade ; import competition ; export opportunities ; local labor markets …
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-run output equation with a coefficient equal to the share of capital (α). The long-run theory is tested using quarterly data on … results support the long-run theory. The existence of long-run relations between real output, foreign output and real oil … steadily over the past three decades, the theory suggests that the effect of oil income on the economy's steady state growth …
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particularly vulnerable. In this paper we consider the impact of the pandemic on the country's exports, arguing that an export …-led recovery is possible. The challenge is to identify viable export opportunities: one of the consequences of the COVID-19 … pandemic is to have closed and shrunk export opportunities globally. Despite this we show that there are still significant …
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aftermath of EEC/EU membership, 1972-2003. By 1972, forty years of protectionism and fifteen years of export promotion induced …
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