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Labor market adjustments after a large import shock : evidence from the German clothing industry and the multi-fibre arrangement
Braakmann, Nils; Wagner, Joachim - 2009
This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
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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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Labor unions and the electoral consequences of trade liberalization
Ogeda, Pedro Molina; Ornelas, Emanuel; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2021
We show that the Brazilian trade liberalization in the early 1990s led to a permanent relative decline in the vote share of left-wing presidential candidates in the regions more affected by the tariff cuts. This happened even though the shock, implemented by a right-wing party, induced a...
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The origins of the division of labor in pre-modern times
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2018
This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011868780
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The impact of trade liberalization on firms' product and labor market power
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Wiersma, Quint - 2020
trade shocks on product and labor market power, we exploit China's reductions in input and output tariffs upon its accession … to the World Trade Organization. We find that trade liberalization has not switched firms away from exercising product … and labor market power. Reducing tariffs on intermediate inputs has increased a firm's price-cost markup but decreased the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169328
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Financial liberalization and the relationship-specificity of exports
Defever, Fabrice; Südekum, Jens - 2013
We investigate the causal impact of equity market liberalizations in the period 1980-1997 on sectoral export performance across 91 countries. The increased availability of external finance has boosted trade of industries that intensively use relationship-specific inputs, and lowered exports of...
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Trade and capital flows: substitutes or complements? : an empirical investigation
Belke, Ansgar; Domnick, Clemens - 2019
This paper examines the linkages between the trade of goods and financial assets. Do both flows behave as complements (implying a positive correlation) or as substitutes (negative correlation)? Although a classic topic in international macroeconomics, the empirical evidence has remained...
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Trade and inequality in Europe and the US
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021
, and a dissolution of traditional family structures. We argue that new import tariffs such as those imposed by the US in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745407
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Illicit shadows : an economic analysis of trade gaps in cultural goods through the Italian market
Acciai, Elia; Belloni, Michele; Della Giusta, Marina; … - 2023
This paper provides evidence of a consistent gap in the value of cultural goods exported from Italy and the value declared by its trading partners in official trade statistics for the period 1994-2021 and discusses it in the context of the literature on illicit trafficking in cultural property,...
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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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