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Trade Liberalization and Child Labor in China
Zhao, Liqiu; Wang, Fei; Zhao, Zhong - 2016
This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China … after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether trade liberalization affects the incidence of … child labor in China. PNTR permanently set U.S. duties on Chinese imports at low Normal Trade Relations (NTR) levels and …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479332
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Trade Liberalization and the Gender Employment Gap in China
Wang, Feicheng; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Zhou, Minghai - 2020
in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, we relate prefecture-level employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322425
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Poverty, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - 2013
We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 Indonesian regions, and investigate the labour market mechanisms behind these effects. The identification strategy relies on combining information on initial regional labour and product...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333315
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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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How Do Households Adjust to Trade Liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO Accession
Dai, Mi; Huang, Wei; Zhang, Yifan - 2018
We investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on household behaviors and outcomes in urban China, exploiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873432
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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 trade liberalization in Brazil, which created exogenous negative labor market shocks to regions most exposed to foreign competition. While trade liberalization had a positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931840
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267407
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Does the liberalization of trade advance gender equality in schooling and health?
Schultz, T. Paul - 2006
This paper assesses the empirical relationship between the liberalization of international trade and the economic status of women. Although historically globalization is not generally linked to the advancement of women, several recent country studies find export led growth in middle and low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268101