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We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe …
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This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional...
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-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …
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-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a …
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Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of political expression and results of congressional and presidential elections spanning the period 2000 through 2016, we find strong though not definitive evidence of an ideological...
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globalization on the labor market outcomes of these workers. We find that higher foreign competition leads to more incentive …
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In this paper, we provide an overview of the relationship between international migration and international trade as … channels, on internal income distribution, international income convergence and on whether migration and trade are substitutes … technology, globalization tends to lead to convergence. Moreover, under non-convex technology trade and migration tend to be …
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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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high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant pattern of international migration and a major aspect of globalization. We … for education, immigration, and international taxation policies in a global context …
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We investigate whether Chinese household incomes have caught up to those of the middle class in the developed world. Using nationwide survey data for 2002 and 2013, we find considerable catch up. Defining the global middle class as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate...
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