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Global Mobility and the Threat of Pandemics: Evidence from Three Centuries

Clemens, Michael A.; Ginn, Thomas - 2020

Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future pandemics, how should permanent restrictions on mobility respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced...

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Should Contact Bans Be Lifted in Germany? A Quantitative Prediction of Its Effects

Donsimoni, Jean Roch; Glawion, René; Plachter, Bodo; … - 2020

Many countries consider the lifting of restrictions of social contacts (RSC). We quantify the effects of RSC for Germany. We initially employ a purely statistical approach to predicting prevalence of COVID19 if RSC were upheld after April 20. We employ these findings and feed them into our...

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Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I.; Reeves, James - 2020

This is the first study to examine the effect of experiencing a widespread, deadly epidemic on voting behavior. Using … the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on votes received by Democratic and Republican … share received by Democratic candidates. Congressional districts that bore the brunt of the HIV/AIDS epidemic also saw …

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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India

Anukriti, S; Kumler, Todd J. - 2014

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of...

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Globalization and Social Change: Gender-Specific Effects of Trade Liberalization in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Pieters, Janneke; Sparrow, Robert - 2017

We analyse the gender-specific effects of trade liberalization on work participation and hours of work and primary participation in domestic duties in Indonesia. We show that female work participation increased in relative terms in regions that were more exposed to input tariff reductions,...

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Making sense of Bolkestein-bashing: trade liberalization under segmented labor markets

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2005

Trade liberalization is often met with sharp opposition. Recent examples include the so-called Bolkestein directive, which allows service providers from a given EU member to temporarily work in another member country. One way to view such a reform is that it simply widens the range of goods that...

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Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: What's Trade Got To Do With It?

Lake, James; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2016

Using US local labor markets between 1990 and 2010, we analyze the heterogeneous impact of rising trade exposure on employment growth of 'good' and 'bad' jobs. Three salient findings emerge. First, rising local exposure to import competition, via falling US tariffs or rising Chinese import...

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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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Trade liberalization and female labor force participation: Evidence from Brazil

Gaddis, Isis; Pieters, Janneke - 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...

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The NAFTA Tide: Lifting the Larger and Better Boats

Voicu, Alexandru; Calderon-Madrid, Angel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the connection between plants’ responses to changes in the economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all...

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