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Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade
Meckl, Jürgen - 2011
understand the link between institutions and an economy's productivity distribution …
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Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms : The Role of Country Asymmetries
Pflüger, Michael - 2010
improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134819
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Trade Reforms and Market Selection : Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia
Eslava, Marcela - 2009
We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842037
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Economies of Scale in the Tunisian Industries
Heshmati, Almas - 2011
To date, empirical investigations of trade liberalization under the conditions of increasing returns to scale (IRS) and imperfect competition (IC) have either assumed or imposed the market and productive structures necessary for such a model. However, of the recent IRS/IC models used to simulate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124474
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Trade Liberalization and Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from Brazil
Gaddis, Isis - 2012
While there is a large literature analyzing the distributional impacts of trade reforms across the income or skill distribution, very little is known about the gender effects of trade reforms. This paper seeks to fill this gap and investigates the impact of Brazil's 1987-1994 trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099762
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On the Reversibility of Structural Reforms
Campos, Nauro F. - 2012
What are the factors that explain reversals in the implementation of structural reforms? Our main hypothesis is that reversals in different reforms are driven by different factors. This paper uses new reform indicators and presents novel evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the...
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Trade Liberalization, Democratization and Technology Adoption
Cervellati, Matteo - 2013
interactions between these institutional changes for technology adoption and productivity growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088332
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Child Labor and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2014
We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies geographical differences in the effects of trade policy through district level exposure to reduction in import tariff barriers. We use a balanced panel of 261 districts, based on four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070776
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Poverty, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2013
We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 Indonesian regions, and investigate the labour market mechanisms behind these effects. The identification strategy relies on combining information on initial regional labour and product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074210