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Trade and Worker Deskilling
Dhingra, Swati - 2019
This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that produced an unprecedentedly large shock to the UK exchange rate. In the 24 hours in June 2016 during which the UK electorate unexpectedly voted to leave the European Union, the value...
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Do Environmental Regulations Effect FDI Decisions? The Pollution Haven Hypothesis Revisited
Yoon, Haeyeon - 2017
In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations on foreign direct investment (FDI). We use Korean outward FDI data covering the manufacturing sector for 2009-15. The study not only considers the stringency but also the...
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Foreign Competition and Executive Compensation in the Manufacturing Industry : A Comparison between Germany and the U.S
Dyballa, Katharina - 2018
impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3 … covering the period from 1984-2010 for Germany respectively 1992-2011 for the U.S. and apply system GMM in order to solve … Germany. A differentiation between imported intermediates (efficient sourcing strategy) and final inputs (competition) reveals …
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Die Rahmenbedingungen für den Welthandel verändern sich Ergebnisse der Sonderfragen im ifo World Economic Survey
Boumans, Dorine; Garnitz, Johanna - In: Ifo-Schnelldienst 72 (2019) 11, pp. 38-43
Die WES-Sonderfragen für das zweite Quartal 2019 befassen sich mit dem Welthandel und der Globalisierung. Vor dem Hintergrund der laufenden Handelsstreitigkeiten zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten, China und der Europäischen Union wurden die Experten gefragt, welche Auswirkungen diese auf ihr...
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Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level : New Measures Based on Global Value Chains
Marczak, Martyna - 2018
competitiveness at the sectoral level for Germany, and compare the empirical evidence with selected other euro area countries …
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International Import Competition and the Decision to Migrate : Evidence from Mexico
Majlesi, Kaveh - 2018
We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration. We exploit the variation in exposure to competition from China, following its accession to the WTO in 2001, across Mexican municipalities and estimate the effect of international...
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firms' Product and Labor Market Power
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2020
This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on firms' product and labor market power. We estimate the prevalence and intensity of firm-level price-cost markups and either wage markups or wage markdowns. We take the dependence between these model-consistent measures of product and...
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Import Competition and Gender Differences in Labor Reallocation
Mansour, Hani - 2020
We study gender differences in the labor market reallocation of Peruvian workers in response to trade liberalization. The empirical strategy relies on variation in import competition across local labor markets based on their industrial composition before China entered the global market in 2001....
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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents
Autor, David H. - 2019
Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how...
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The Causal Impact of Migration on US Trade : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Steingress, Walter - 2015
Immigrants can increase international trade by shifting preferences towards the goods of their country of origin and by reducing bilateral transaction costs. Using geographical variations across US states for the period 1970 to 2005, we quantify the impact of immigrants on intermediate goods...
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