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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 … most productive firms, and an increase in real wages due to the increased labour demand by these firms. Using data on … import tariffs is related to an increase in real wages, and that the elimination of the U.S. import tariff has contributed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746201
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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
import competition experienced slower growth in manufacturing wages and in-migration rates between 2000 and 2010, and greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126579
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Imports and exports at the level of the firm: evidence from Belgium
Muuls, Mirabelle; Pisu, Mauro - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
This paper explores a newly-available panel data set merging balance sheet and international trade transaction data for Belgium. Both imports and exports appear to be highly concentrated among few firms and seem to have become more so over time. Focusing on manufacturing, we find that facts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745332
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Cheap imports and the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs
Cooke, Abigail; Kemeny, Thomas; Rigby, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper examines the role of international trade, and specifically imports from low-wage countries, in determining patterns of job loss in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2007. Motivated by intuitions from factor-proportions-inspired work on offshoring and heterogeneous firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125962
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Endowments, market potential, and industrial location: evidence from interwar Poland (1918-1939)
Wolf, Nikolaus - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
The paper explores the determinants of industry location across interwar Poland. After more than 120 years of political and economic separation, Poland was reunified at the end of 1918. In consequence, its industry faced massive structural changes: the removal of internal tariff barriers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744846
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Trade crisis? What trade crisis?
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
We provide an analysis of the 2008-2009 trade collapse using microdata from a small open economy,Belgium. First, we find that changes in firm-country-product exports and imports occurred mostly atthe intensive margin: the number of firms, the average number of destination and origin markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744902
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Heterogeneous firms and trade
Melitz, Marc J.; Redding, Stephen J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This paper reviews the new approach to international trade based on firm heterogeneity in differentiated product markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity of exporters relative to non-exporters, within-industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745182
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Exporters, importers and credit constraints
Muûls, Mirabelle - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This paper analyses the interaction between credit constraints and trading behaviour. I construct a unique dataset containing firm-level trade transactions data, balance sheets and credit scores from an independent credit insurance company for Belgian manufacturing firms between 1999 and 2007....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746016
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Trade crisis?: what trade crisis?
Behrens, Kristian; Corcos, Gregory; Mion, Giordano - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
We investigate the dramatic 2008–2009 trade collapse using microdata from a small open economy, Belgium. Belgian trade essentially fell because of reduced quantities and unit prices, rather than fewer firms involved in international transactions, fewer trading partners per firm, or fewer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126326
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Trade liberalization, outsourcing, and firm productivity
Ossa, Ralph - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Empirical evidence suggests that trade liberalization increases firm productivity. This paper offers a novel explanation for this finding. I develop a simple general equilibrium model of trade in which trade liberalization leads to outsourcing as firms focus on their core competencies in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745324