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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. duties on Chinese imports at low Normal Trade Relations (NTR) levels and …

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Trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms : the role of country asymmetries

Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - 2010

This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...

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Institutions and development : the interaction between trade regime and political system

Falkinger, Josef (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Labor market regulation, international trade and footloose capital

Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2017

I examine the effects of globalization in countries where the employed workers support the unemployed and the governments control wages by regulating the workers' relative bargaining power. I use a general oligopolistic equilibrium model of two integrated countries with two inputs: labor and...

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North-South technology spillovers : the relative impact of openness and foreign R&D

Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor); Wang, Yanling (contributor) - 2008

This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D...

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Openness and human capital as sources of productivity growth : an empirical investigation from the MENA countries

Haouas, Ilham (contributor); Yagoubi, Mahmoud (contributor) - 2005

This paper investigates the impact of openness to trade and higher levels of human capital on the economies of some MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use panel data on 16 countries spanning the 1965-2000...

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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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