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Short and Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Developing Country Exports: Evidence from Bangladesh
Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo, Diego; … - 2020
This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of … increase in exports of the female-intensive good, the male-female wage gap closes considerably throughout the country – not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207722
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Mending the Gap: Apparel Export Prices and the Gender Wage Gap in Bangladesh
Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo Medeiros, Diego - 2022
Are the wage gains from exports specific to exporting industries, or do they dissipate throughout the economy? In the … studies show the positive impact of apparel exports on female labor force participation in the formal labor market and a range … of household decisions. We extend this literature by estimating the relationship between apparel exports and the male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351950
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Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market: How Good is it for Africa?
Co, Catherine Y.; Dimova, Ralitza - 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 market access program for the least developed sub-Saharan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333282
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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; Wagner, Joachim - 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/10010269526
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Subsidies and exports in Germany: first evidence from enterprise panel data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - 2009
the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is … subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively related. Using a matching approach to investigate the causal effect of … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277451
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Trade Liberalization and the Gender Employment Gap in China
Wang, Feicheng; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Zhou, Minghai - 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/10012322425
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Labor Unions and the Electoral Consequences of Trade Liberalization
Ogeda, Pedro Molina; Ornelas, Emanuel; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2021
We show that the Brazilian trade liberalization in the early 1990s led to a permanent relative decline in the vote share of left-wing presidential candidates in the regions more affected by the tariff cuts. This happened even though the shock, implemented by a right-wing party, induced a...
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Trade and Inequality in Europe and the US
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021
The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882490
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Economic Sanctions and Trade Flows in the Neighbourhood
Bove, Vincenzo; Di Salvatore, Jessica; Nistico, Roberto - 2023
imports and/or exports. To shed light on this issue, we employ a combination of large-N panel data analysis and comparative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296714
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Illicit Shadows: An Economic Analysis of Trade Gaps in Cultural Goods through the Italian Market
Acciai, Elia; Belloni, Michele; Della Giusta, Marina; … - 2023
This paper provides evidence of a consistent gap in the value of cultural goods exported from Italy and the value declared by its trading partners in official trade statistics for the period 1994-2021 and discusses it in the context of the literature on illicit trafficking in cultural property,...
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