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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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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...
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Trade policy uncertainty, offshoring, and the environment : evidence from US manufacturing establishments
Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Kim, Gueyon; Park, Ziho - 2023
We study long-run environmental impacts of trade liberalization on US manufacturing by exploiting a plausibly exogenous reduction in US trade policy uncertainty: the conferral of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China. Using detailed data on establishment-level pollution emissions and...
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Does management matter in schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434591
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Globalization, brain drain and development
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011
Indian diaspora in the development of India's IT sector. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of the analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235188
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Regional income inequality in selected large countries
Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002422179
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Population adjustment to asymmetric labour market shocks in India : a comparison to Europe and the United States at two different regional levels
Braschke, Franziska; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2022
most striking difference is that, in India, we do not find any significant reactions to asymmetric non-employment shocks at … the response to unemployment shocks in these economies. In India, the unemployment rate does not seem to be a reliable … to regional wage differentials in India at both the state and district level. …
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Food for fuel : the effect of the US biofuel mandate on poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2018
RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a … are greater among urban households. However, more poor people in India live in villages, so rural poverty impacts are …
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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...
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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...
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