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How Do Households Adjust to Trade Liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO Accession

Dai, Mi - 2018

We investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on household behaviors and outcomes in urban China, exploiting regional variation in the exposure to tariff cuts resulting from WTO entry. Regions that initially specialized in industries facing larger tariff cuts experienced relative declines...

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Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms : The Role of Country Asymmetries

Pflüger, Michael - 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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Impact of Industrialization on Relative Female Survival : Evidence from Trade Policies

Chakraborty, Tanika - 2012

This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son preference. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that households are more likely to have a male child in regions with higher trade openness relative to regions with...

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The Effects of Globalization on Worker Training

Gersbach, Hans - 2006

We consider a three-stage game to examine how market integration affects firms' incentives to provide general worker training. In stage 1, firms invest in productivity-enhancing training. In stage 2, they can make wage offers for each others' workers. Finally, Cournot competition takes place....

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Globalization and Social Change : Gender-Specific Effects of Trade Liberalization in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2017

related to input tariff liberalization, especially in the younger cohorts, as the improved labour opportunities for women …

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Adjusting to Globalization in Germany

Dauth, Wolfgang - 2018

We exploit rich worker-establishment data to trace the impact of rising international trade exposure in the job biographies of roughly 2.4 million manufacturing workers in Germany (1990–2010). To profit from export opportunities, workers respond by increased employer switching within...

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Does the Liberalization of Trade Advance Gender Equality in Schooling and Health?

Schultz, T. Paul - 2011

status of women. Although historically globalization is not generally linked to the advancement of women, several recent … country studies find export led growth in middle and low income countries is associated with improvements in women … suggest the mechanisms by which it operates? Measures of wages for men and women are an unreliable basis for study of gender …

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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2021

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

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Trade Liberalization, Economic Activity, and Political Violence in the Global South : Evidence from Ptas

Amodio, Francesco; Baccini, Leonardo; Chiovelli, Giorgio; … - 2023

This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries and their high-income trade partners between 1995...

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Trade as a Wage Disciplining Device

Persyn, Damiaan - 2021

We estimate how trade openness affects the relationship between wages, labour productivity and foreign wages using sector-level time series for several EU member states. In some countries wages became less responsive to foreign wages as trade costs declined. We show this counter-intuitive result...

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