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This paper provides a new heterogeneous firm model for trade where firms differ in their productivity and experience different market demand shocks. The model incorporates variations in trade policy, trade preferences, and the rules of origin needed to obtain them, to reflect real world...
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higher country concentration of exporters. We also find the effects of the MFA on clothing trade were more significant than … for textiles trade. The benefits from freer trade in textiles and clothing shed light on other sectors that are still …
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International trade in apparel and textiles is regulated by a system of bilateral tariffs and quotas known as the Multifiber Arrangement or MFA. Using a time series of detailed product-level data from the United States on the quotas and tariffs that comprise the MFA, we analyze how the MFA...
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Historical accounts suggest that Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany revolutionized U.S. science. To analyze the émigrés' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés with fields of other German chemists. Patenting...
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period in US history. Immigrants chose less foreign names for children as they spent more time in the US, eventually closing …
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Within-country ethnic diversity in high-wage immigrant nations is driven by long distance migration. This paper documents the migration-diversity connection for the first global century before 1914 and the second global century after 1950. It distinguishes between ethnic diversity among the...
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Immigration can expand labor supply and create greater competition for native-born workers. But immigrants may also … of immigrants in entrepreneurship. We ask how often immigrants start companies, how many jobs these firms create, and how … addressing the dual roles of immigrants as founders and workers. The findings suggest that immigrants act more as "job creators …
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Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration%u2019s labor market impact in high wage economies? This …
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The aim of the paper is to see whether individuals' attitudes towards globalization are consistent with the predictions …-skilled is associated with more pro-globalization attitudes in rich countries; while in some of the very poorest countries in the … sample being high-skilled has a negative (if statistically insignificant) impact on pro-globalization sentiment. More …
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The trade linked to international production networks - supply-chain trade for short - is associated with momentous global economic changes. This paper presents a portrait of the global pattern of supply-chain trade and how it has evolved since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data sources...
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