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This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son …) have increased in response to trade liberalization. Thus, altered expectations about future returns from daughters relative …
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The various channels through which a reduction in the cost of offshoring can improve wages in a developed country are by now well understood. But does a similar reduction in the offshoring cost also benefit workers in the world's factories in developing countries? Using a parsimonious...
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global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and … pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric ways with respect to (i) the nature of unilaterally optimal trade … the pros and cons of deep trade integration as a remedy, involving well-enforced labor standards both upstream and …
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This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son …) have increased in response to trade liberalization. Thus, altered expectations about future returns from daughters relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744667
This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North …-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion … imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP. We allow these contributions to differ and …
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This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … diffusion on TFP in the South, focusing on South America (SA), Mexico, Latin America (LA) and East Asia for the 32-year period … preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007) in a new model that integrates models of trade-related and distance …
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) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry …-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in the South. The main findings are: i … variables - education, governance or openness - result in virtuous growth cycles. These are smallest under an increase in trade …
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) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry …-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in the South. The main findings are: i … variables – education, governance or openness – result in virtuous growth cycles. These are smallest under an increase in trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568276
dynamic viewpoint by examining the impact of trade with Japan, North America and the EU on technology diffusion and TFP in … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version …
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dynamic viewpoint by examining the impact of trade with Japan, North America and the EU on technology diffusion and TFP in … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703120