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to the relative marginal productivity levels of workers. This paper investigates the role of globalization on the … structure and evolution of gender differentials in China by simultaneously estimating demand-side wage and productivity outcomes … labor demand. The results suggest that more exposure to globalization through increased exports is associated with lower …
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to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …
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global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective …. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has been catching up with that in developed countries. By 2018 China …'s global middle class constituted 25 percent of China's population; in absolute size it was nearly double the size of the …
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status of women. Although historically globalization is not generally linked to the advancement of women, several recent …
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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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to employment. We also examine a number of questions about the impact of globalization that respondents across many …
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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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vividly illustrated. This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages between China, Latin America, and the rest of the … world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … to Latin America and the rest of emerging Asia (excluding China and India) GDP has not undergone any significant change …
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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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