Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,167
Cover Image
Trade Shocks, Fertility, and Marital Behavior
Giuntella, Osea; Rotunno, Lorenzo; Stella, Luca - 2021
fertility and marital behavior of German workers. We find that individuals working in sectors that were more affected by import … in sectors that benefited from increased exports had better employment prospects and higher fertility. These effects are … among workers exposed to import competition there is evidence of some fertility postponement, we find a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597370
Cover Image
Exports to Improve Women's Economic Opportunities in Morocco
Roche Rodriguez, Jaime Alfonso; Robertson, Raymond; … - 2023
Morocco's trade liberalization policies coincided with macroeconomic growth over the past two decades. The relationship between trade liberalization and individual-level labor-market outcomes, however, are not well understood. By combining three complementary approaches and modeling techniques,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469365
Cover Image
Re-Assessing the Impacts of Exports on Local Labour Market Outcomes: A Supply Chain Perspective. Evidence from Egypt
Tillian, Pablo; Kokas, Deeksha; Góes, Carlos; … - 2023
This paper examines the overall impact of exports while accounting for supply chain linkages on local labor market outcomes in Egypt between 2007 and 2018. We assess the effects not only on directly exporting industries but also on industries indirectly affected by rising export demand....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469633
Cover Image
Fathering Daughters and Personality
van Lent, Max - 2022
The big five personality traits develop over a person's lifetime. There is some suggestive evidence that major life events - such as getting married, being fired from a job, and having children - affect personality. However, these associations cannot be interpreted as causal. This is the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882588
Cover Image
When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men
Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2018
reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and … manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage …, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873469
Cover Image
The Effects of Trade Exposure on Marriage and Fertility Choices: Evidence from Brazil
Braga, Breno - 2018
This paper investigates the effect of a large economic shock on marriage and fertility choices. I exploit the 1990's … for the effect of trade exposure on fertility. There is no evidence of changes in marriage rates across regions exposed to … important driver of changes in fertility outcomes of young women. Changes in women's employment opportunities are not a mediator …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931840
Cover Image
Isolating the Network Effect of Immigrants on Trade
Aleksynska, Mariya; Peri, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business networks, and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade. Using cross-sectional data and controlling for the overall bilateral stock of migrants, the share of migrants employed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584366
Cover Image
Isolating the network effect of immigrants on trade
Aleksynska, Mariya; Peri, Giovanni - 2012
Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business networks, and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade. Using cross-sectional data and controlling for the overall bilateral stock of migrants, the share of migrants employed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289979
Cover Image
Tracing the Local Impacts of Exports on Poverty and Inequality in Mexico
Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos; Vazquez, Emmanuel; Winkler, … - 2020
Evidence about the effect of exports on welfare at the local level is scarce. Using a unique dataset of international trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270288
Cover Image
How Do Immigrants Promote Exports? Networks, Knowledge, Diversity.
Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2022
How do immigrants promote exports? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework allowing to identify and disentangle the main mechanisms put forth in the literature: the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs, and the productivity shifts arising from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470485