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Wage Structure Effects of International Trade : Evidence from a Small Open Economy
Du Caju, Philip - 2011
In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the impact of...
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Cognitive, Non-Cognitive Skills and Gender Wage Gaps : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data in Bangladesh
Nordman, Christophe J. - 2015
We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender …
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Mending the Gap : Apparel Export Prices and the Gender Wage Gap in Bangladesh
Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo, Diego; … - 2022
language of trade theory, are the benefits from exporting industry specific or factor specific? To analyze this question, we … study the case of Bangladesh. Bangladesh was the 4th largest apparel supplier to the United States market in 2020. Recent … sector. The economy-wide male-female wage gap for less-educated workers in Bangladesh dropped by more than half with the …
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Trade Liberalization and the Gender Employment Gap in China
Wang, Feicheng - 2020
This paper investigates the impact of import liberalization induced labor demand shocks on male and female employment in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, we relate prefecture-level employment by gender to the exposure to tariff reductions on locally...
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Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2014
Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....
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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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Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Goldberg, Pinelopi; Meghir, Costas; … - 2021
We build an equilibrium model of a small open economy with labor market frictions and imperfectly enforced regulations. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual simulations to understand how trade affects...
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China's Skill-Biased Imports
Li, Hongbin; Li, Lei; Ma, Hong - 2022
China has witnessed rapid increases in the skill premium over the last few decades. In this paper, we study the short-run effect of capital goods imports on skill premium in China. The surge in capital goods imports, which embody advanced technology, can explain the rising demand for skills in...
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Trade and Unemployment : What Do the Data Say?
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2009
This paper documents a robust empirical regularity: in the long-run, higher trade openness is causally associated to a lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using: (i) panel data from 20 OECD countries, (ii) cross-sectional data on a larger set of countries. The time...
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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 … effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a comparatively well educated labour force, and active social policies …
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