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Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2021

We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies competition, and forces the least efficient firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate...

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Globalization and Wage Convergence : Mexico and the United States

Gandolfi, Davide - 2014

2011. We apply a synthetic panel approach to employment survey data and a more descriptive approach to Census data from …

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Mending the Gap : Apparel Export Prices and the Gender Wage Gap in Bangladesh

Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo, Diego; … - 2022

Are the wage gains from exports specific to exporting industries, or do they dissipate throughout the economy? In the 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...

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Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes : Wage Bargaining, Search Frictions, and Firm Heterogeneity

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Prat, Julien; Schmerer, Hans‐Jörg - 2021

market access costs are more elusive. Calibrating the model shows that the positive impact of trade openness on employment is …

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The Political U : New Evidence on Democracy and Income

Campos, Nauro F.; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Frigerio, Marco - 2022

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960-2018, we show that the causal relationship between political and economic development is U-shaped: "intermediate" political regimes significantly lead to inferior economic...

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Globalisation, Inequality and Poverty Relationships : A Cross Country Evidence

Neutel, Marcel - 2014

In this research, the relationship between globalisation and poverty and income inequality is determined. A whole new globalisation index has been constructed based on data covering a large sample of 65 developing countries. The index is based on the globalisation index proposed by A.T....

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The Impact of Public Employment : Evidence from Bonn

Becker, Sascha O. - 2018

This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German … empirical analysis, we develop a simple economic geography model in which public sector employment in a city can crowd out … private employment through higher wages and house prices, but also generates potential productivity and amenity spillovers. We …

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European Innovation Dynamics and Us Economic Impact : Theory and Empirical Analysis

Welfens, Paul J.J. - 2015

, employment and output growth …

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Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy : Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model

Pflüger, Michael - 2011

The robust empirical finding that exporting firms are systematically different from firms that merely serve domestic consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The establishment of a canonical model due to Melitz (2003) has...

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Business Conditions and Default Risks Across Countries

Pflüger, Michael - 2011

The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country level from a theoretical point of view. Our main...

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