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Beyond EU-US Trade Dynamics: TTIP Effects Related to Foreign Direct Investment and Innovation

Jungmittag, Andre; Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2017

The international economic debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused mainly on … underestimation of deep integration projects such as TTIP. The panel data estimation of knowledge production functions for 20 EU … trade related real income gains in the context of TTIP – also contributes to new knowledge and a fortiori to higher GDP …

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Export-Led Growth after COVID-19: The Case of Portugal

Naudé, Wim; Cameron, Martin - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted trade and global value chains. Small open economies such as Portugal are particularly vulnerable. In this paper we consider the impact of the pandemic on the country's exports, arguing that an export-led recovery is possible. The challenge is to identify...

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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...

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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...

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Subsidies and exports in Germany: first evidence from enterprise panel data

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate 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...

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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 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...

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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...

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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 emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...

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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 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...

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