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Winners and losers from a commodities-for-manufactures trade boom

Costa, Francisco; Garred, Jason; Pessoa, João Paulo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much concern about the losers from rising import competition in manufacturing, but little attention on the winners from growing Chinese demand for commodities. Using census data for...

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The effect of trade liberalization on informality and wages: evidence from Mexico

Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper studies the impact of NAFTA on informality and real wages in Mexico. Using a dynamic industry model with … firm heterogeneity, it is predicted that import tariff elimination could reduce the incidence of informality by making more … the Mexican import tariffs are significantly related to reductions in the likelihood of informality in the tradable …

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Job creation and job destruction in the presence of informal labour markets

Bosch, Mariano - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Recessions and policy interventions in labour markets in developing countries are characterized not only by changes in the unemployment rate, but also by changes in the proportion of formal or protected jobs. This reallocation between formal and informal jobs is large and occurs mainly because...

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Resurrecting the participation margin

Ebell, Monique - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper considers a real business cycle model with search frictions in the labor market and labor supply which is elastic along the extensive (participation) margin. Previous authors have found that such models generate counterfactually procyclical unemployment and a positively-sloped...

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Unemployment and hours of work: the North Atlantic divide revisited

Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

I examine the dynamic evolutions of unemployment, hours of work and the service share since the war in the United States and Europe. The theoretical model brings together all three and emphasizes technological growth. Computations show that the very low unemployment in Europe in the 1960s was...

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Why are higher skilled workers more mobile geographically?: the role of the job surplus

Amior, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

The skill gap in geographical mobility is entirely driven by workers who report moving for a new job. A natural explanation lies in the large expected surplus accruing to skilled job matches. Just as large surpluses ease the frictions which impede job search in general, they also help overcome...

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Has job polarization squeezed the middle class? Evidence from the allocation of talents

Boehm, Michael J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Over the last two decades, earnings in the United States increased at the top and at the bottom of the wage distribution but not in the middle - the intensely debated middle class squeeze. At the same time there was a substantial decline of employment in middle-skill production and clerical...

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Minimum wages and earnings inequality in urban Mexico. Revisiting the evidence

Bosch, Mariano; Manacorda, Marco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper explores the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico between the late 1980 and the late 1990s. In contrast to the view that sees minimum wages as an ineffective redistributive tool in developing countries, we find that the...

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Urbanizing refuge: interrogating spaces of displacement

Sanyal, Romola - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Refugee spaces are emerging as quintessential geographies of the modern, yet their intimate and everyday spatialities remain under-explored. Rendered largely through geopolitical discourses, they are seen as biopolitical spaces where the sovereign can reduce the subject to bare life. In...

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Financing social policy in the presence of informality

Ahmad, Ehtisham; Best, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

We present a framework for the analysis of tax and benefit policy in countries with significant informality. Our …

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