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The global welfare impact of China : trade integration and technological change
Di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Zhang, Jing - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572379
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The intensive margin in trade
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Klenow, Peter J.; Meleshchuk, … - 2018
-distributed firm productivity, which has become a tractable benchmark. This benchmark model predicts that, conditional on the fixed …-level productivity, fixed costs and demand shifters, and use 'exact hat algebra' to quantify the effects of a decline in trade costs on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978438
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The Global Welfare Impact of China : Trade Integration and Technological Change
di Giovanni, Julian - 2012
Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative productivity growth scenarios: a … ""balanced"" one in which China''s productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an ""unbalanced"" one in which China …''s comparative disadvantage sectors catch up disproportionately faster to the world productivity frontier. Contrary to a well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396905
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Macroeconomic and Welfare Costs of U.S. Fiscal Imbalances
Gruss, Bertrand - 2012
In this paper we use a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents to assess the macroeconomic and welfare consequences in the United States of alternative fiscal policies over the medium-term. We find that failing to address the fiscal imbalances associated with current federal fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396892
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Effects of COVID-19 on regional and gender equality in Sub-Saharan Africa : evidence from Nigeria and Ethiopia
Aoyagi, Chie - 2021
The labor structure in sub-Saharan Africa is characterized by a high share of informal employment in the rural agricultural sector. The impact of COVID-19 on female employment may not appear to be large as the share of such employment is particularly high among women. Nevertheless, widespread...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610761
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Gender equality and electoral violence in Africa : unlocking the peacemaking potential of women
Ouedraogo, Rasmane; Ouedraogo, Idrissa Mohamed - 2019
We examine the impact of gender equality on electoral violence in Africa using micro-level data from the sixth round of Afrobarometer surveys. The sample covers 30 countries. We find that gender equality is associated with lower electoral violence. Quantitatively, our estimates show that an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103612
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Is technology widening the gender gap? : automation and the future of female employment
Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla-Norris, Era; Khalid, Salma - 2019
Using individual level data on task composition at work for 30 advanced and emerging economies, we find that women, on average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we relate data on task composition at work to occupation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021777
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Reducing and redistributing unpaid work : stronger policies to support gender equality
Alonso, Cristian; Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla-Norris, Era; … - 2019
-wide productivity. In this paper, we examine recent trends in unpaid work around the world using aggregate and individual-level data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122693
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Tackling legal impediments to women's economic empowerment
Christopherson, Katharine; Yiadom, Audrey; Johnson, … - 2022
It is well established that a wide range of legal impediments in countries' domestic laws have prevented women from achieving full economic empowerment, which in turn has negative macroeconomic implications. In many countries, laws often reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170246
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Gendered taxes : the interaction of tax policy with gender equality
Coelho, Maria; Davis, Aieshwarya; Klemm, Alexander; … - 2022
This paper provides an overview of the relation between tax policy and gender equality, covering labor, capital and wealth, as well as consumption taxes. It considers implicit and explicit gender biases and corrective taxation. On labor taxes, we discuss the well-established findings on female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170280