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How Deep is Your Love? A Quantitative Spatial Analysis of the Transatlantic Trade Partnership
Krebs, Oliver - 2015
Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a … World Input Output Database (WIOD). We also explore the consequences of labor mobility across local labor markets in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023010
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Beyond EU-US Trade Dynamics : TTIP Effects Related to Foreign Direct Investment and Innovation
Jungmittag, Andre - 2017
The international economic debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused mainly on … underestimation of deep integration projects such as TTIP. The panel data estimation of knowledge production functions for 20 EU … trade related real income gains in the context of TTIP – also contributes to new knowledge and a fortiori to higher GDP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948641
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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 regional variation in the exposure to tariff cuts resulting from WTO entry. Regions that initially specialized in industries facing larger tariff cuts experienced relative declines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922459
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North-South Trade Liberalization and Returns to Skill in the South : The Case of Mexico
Otero, Rafael; Hazarika, Gautam - 2021
This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324881
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012714596
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On the Bilateral Trade Effects of Free Trade Agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 Countries
Rault, Christophe; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria - 2021
, the Russian Federation and Ukraine) that did not sign an FTA. Besides, we show that trade growth after the FTA agreement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324887
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Mind the Gap : Net Incomes of Minimum Wage Workers in the EU and the US
Marx, Ive - 2012
This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It is shown that only for single persons and only in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106961
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The Evolving Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market : The COVID Motherhood Penalty
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2022
We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school-age children have widened but not for those with younger children....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084037
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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320572
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Do Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade Save American Jobs and Wages?
Leonardi, Marco; Maschi, Elena - 2021
Before the recent rebound due to the US–China trade war, tariffs on international trade were being progressively reduced over the last decades and advanced countries increasingly relied on non-tariff measures (NTMs) to protect their industries from foreign competition. In this paper, we...
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