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better qualified workers, and pay higher hourly wages. We also uncover a pecking order of effects, with export …
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China's exports reduce wages in importing countries, but few studies have looked at competition in third party markets … from China. Using data on U.S. imports in conjunction with quarterly Mexican labor force surveys, we show that U.S. imports … from China are associated with a reduction of employment in Mexico's textile and apparel sectors. These effects are the …
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cities (spill-over effect) in China for the period between 1995 and 2009. Using spatial fixed-effect panel data models and … indirect effect of factors such as FDI between more and less population dense areas. …
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international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have …
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emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower … balanced trade with China (such as Germany and Switzerland). Drawing on a new analysis for the UK, we further show that trade …-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade …
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studies the impact of trade on wages and worker training. Wages and training fell for workers employed in sectors where the …This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that …
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of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK … or for average wages. These findings are robust to controlling for a variety of firm characteristics. …
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played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
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This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and emerging economies. It documents the role of diaspora networks in enhancing cross-border flows of goods, capital, and knowledge, eventually contributing to efficient...
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China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply … local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We …
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