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Export and labor market outcomes : a supply chain perspective : evidence from Vietnam

Kokas, Deeksha; López Acevedo, Gladys; Vu, Ha - 2023

? To analyze this question, we study the case of Vietnam. Vietnam exported a total of $356B, making it the number 18 … exporter in the world in 2021. Recent studies show provinces in Vietnam with greater exposure to tariff reductions observe … exports propagated through domestic production linkages in Vietnam between 2010 and 2019. We find that direct exposure to …

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When banana import restrictions lead to exports : a tale of cyclones and quarantine policies

Chia Chiun Ko; Frijters, Paul - 2014

This paper examines the welfare loss of import restrictions on bananas in Australia and whether the import restrictions have turned into a particular form of export promotion. We set up a model in which there is free domestic entry, with banana producers accepting losses in normal years, off-set...

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Does official development assistance affect donor's export? : case of Korea

Noh, Bobae; Heshmati, Almas - 2017

This paper aims to estimate the impact of bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by Korea on its bilateral export to recipient countries. The empirical analysis is based on data from 1996 to 2014 with 121 recipient countries. Although the two models of determinants of ODA and...

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How do immigrants promote exports? : networks, knowledge, diversity.

Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2022

How do immigrants promote exports? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework allowing to identify and disentangle the main mechanisms put forth in the literature: the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs, and the productivity shifts arising from...

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Poverty, labour markets and trade liberalization in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - 2013

We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 Indonesian regions, and investigate the labour market mechanisms behind these effects. The identification strategy relies on combining information on initial regional labour and product...

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Tariffs, social status, and gender in India

Anukriti, S.; Kumler, Todd J. - 2014

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of...

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Good jobs, bad jobs : what's trade got to do with it?

Lake, James; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2016

Using US local labor markets between 1990 and 2010, we analyze the heterogeneous impact of rising trade exposure on employment growth of 'good' and 'bad' jobs. Three salient findings emerge. First, rising local exposure to import competition, via falling US tariffs or rising Chinese import...

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Local labor market conditions and crime : evidence from the Brazilian trade liberalization

Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2016

This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on developed countries with relatively low crime rates, we find that labor market conditions have a strong...

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Trade liberalization and the gender employment gap in China

Wang, Feicheng; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Zhou, Minghai - 2020

This paper investigates the impact of import liberalization induced labor demand shocks on male and female employment in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, we relate prefecture-level employment by gender to the exposure to tariff reductions on locally...

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Trade liberalization and child labor in China

Zhao, Liqiu; Wang, Fei; Zhao, Zhong - 2016

This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether trade liberalization affects the incidence of child labor in China. PNTR permanently set U.S....

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