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College Openings and Local Economic Development
Berlingieri, Francesco; Gathmann, Christina; … - 2022
We study how the presence of a college affects the local economy using administrative data. Our analysis exploits the opening of new institutions of tertiary education across Germany in the 1980s and 1990s. The new college substantially increased the student population and share of high-skilled...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922459
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China's 'Great Migration' : The Impact of the Reduction in Trade Policy Uncertainty
Facchini, Giovanni - 2018
We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929088
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Trade Liberalization and the Gender Employment Gap in China
Wang, Feicheng - 2020
in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, we relate prefecture-level employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824431
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Trade Liberalization and Child Labor in China
Zhao, Liqiu - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980303
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Trade Openness and the Demand for Skills : Evidence from Turkish Microdata
Meschi, Elena F. - 2012
In this paper we report evidence on the relationship between trade openness, technology adoption and relative demand for skilled labour in the Turkish manufacturing sector, using firm-level data over the period 1980-2001. In a dynamic panel data setting using a unique database of 17,462 firms,...
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Does the Liberalization of Trade Advance Gender Equality in Schooling and Health?
Schultz, T. Paul - 2011
This paper assesses the empirical relationship between the liberalization of international trade and the economic 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...
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firms' Product and Labor Market Power
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2020
trade shocks on product and labor market power, we exploit China's reductions in input and output tariffs upon its accession …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842037
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928494
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Globalization and Social Change : Gender-Specific Effects of Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2017
We analyse the gender-specific effects of trade liberalization on work participation and hours of work and primary participation in domestic duties in Indonesia. We show that female work participation increased in relative terms in regions that were more exposed to input tariff reductions,...
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