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Labor Market Adjustments after a Large Import Shock : Evidence from the German Clothing Industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
Braakmann, Nils - 2009
This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824431
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Trust, Values and False Consensus
Butler, Jeffrey V. - 2012
Trust beliefs are heterogeneous across individuals and, at the same time, persistent across generations. We investigate one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of a trust game experiment, we show that individuals extrapolate from their own type when forming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099101
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How Deep is Your Love? A Quantitative Spatial Analysis of the Transatlantic Trade Partnership
Krebs, Oliver - 2015
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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Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms : The Role of Country Asymmetries
Pflüger, Michael - 2010
This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134819
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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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Globalization and Social Change : Gender-Specific Effects of Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2017
considerably more female-biased than skill-biased and hence reductions in input tariffs have especially benefited sectors with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962291
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An Empirical Analysis of Trade-Related Redistribution and the Political Viability of Free Trade
Lake, James - 2014
Even if free trade creates net welfare gains for a country as a whole, the associated distributional implications can undermine the political viability of free trade. We show that trade-related redistribution increases the political viability of free trade in the US. We do so by assessing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055559
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Trade Liberalization and Local Labor Markets in Morocco
Roche Rodriguez, Jaime; Robertson, Raymond; … - 2023
Morocco's trade liberalization policies have promoted economic progress over the past two decades. However, effects on Morocco's local labor market outcomes vary. By combining three complementary approaches and modeling techniques, this paper estimates: (i) how trade agreements have increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344465
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firms' Product and Labor Market Power
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2020
trade shocks on product and labor market power, we exploit China's reductions in input and output tariffs upon its accession … to the World Trade Organization.We find that trade liberalization has not switched firms away from exercising product and … labor market power. Reducing tariffs on intermediate inputs has increased a firm's price-cost markup but decreased the …
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