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Trade Liberalization and the Gender Employment Gap in China
Wang, Feicheng - 2020
in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, we relate prefecture-level employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824431
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153171
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Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2020
How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? The recent backlash against globalization renders this question extremely topical. Yet, most previous work has looked for political effects of aggregate trade flows without decomposing into particular types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839064
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922459
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Trade Liberalization and Child Labor in China
Zhao, Liqiu - 2016
This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China … after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether trade liberalization affects the incidence of … child labor in China. PNTR permanently set U.S. duties on Chinese imports at low Normal Trade Relations (NTR) levels and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980303
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Short and Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Developing Country Exports : Evidence from Bangladesh
Robertson, Raymond - 2020
This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) - spread through Bangladesh's labor markets. Although the end of the MFA was arguably exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838506
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081266
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Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market : How Good is it for Africa?
Co, Catherine Y. - 2014
In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059687
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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