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Harrison, Ann E. - 2010

This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of … globalization: trade and international capital flows. Past researchers have argued that global economic integration should help the … evidence suggests that the poor are more likely to share in the gains from globalization when there are complementary policies …

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Recent Findings on Trade and Inequality

Harrison, Ann E. - 2010

The 1990's dealt a blow to traditional Heckscher-Ohlin analysis of the relationship between trade and income inequality, as it became clear that rising inequality in low- income countries and other features of the data were inconsistent with that model. As a result, economists moved away from...

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Decomposing the Great Trade Collapse : Products, Prices, and Quantities in the 2008-2009 Crisis

Haddad, Mona - 2010

We identify a new set of stylized facts on the 2008-2009 trade collapse that we hope can be used to shed light on the importance of demand and supply-side factors in explaining the fall in trade. In particular, we decompose the fall in international trade into product entry and exit, price...

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Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers Using the Current Population Surveys

Ebenstein, Avraham Y. - 2009

Surveys from 1984 to 2002. We find that occupational exposure to globalization is associated with significant wage effects …, while industry exposure has no significant impact. We present evidence that globalization has put downward pressure on …

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Spillovers, Foreign Investment, and Export Behavior

Aitken, Brian; Hanson, Gordon H.; Harrison, Ann E. - 2021

Case studies of export behavior suggest that firms who penetrate foreign markets reduce entry costs for other potential exporters, either through learning by doing or through establishing buyer- supplier linkages. We pursue the idea that spillovers associated with one firm's export activity...

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