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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
Harrison, Ann E. - 2011
, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …
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The Link between Manufacturing Growth and Accelerated Services Growth in India
Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2014
-level data from India, we find a positive spillover from manufacturing growth to gross value added, wages, employment, and worker …
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Trade Reforms, Labor Regulations and Labor-Demand Elasticities : Empirical Evidence from India
Hasan, Rana; Mitra, Devashish; Ramaswamy, K. V. - 2021
Using industry-level data disaggregated by states, this paper finds a positive impact of trade liberalization on labor-demand elasticities in the Indian manufacturing sector. These elasticities turn out to be negatively related to protection levels that vary across industries and over time....
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Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization, and the Skill Premium
Harrigan, James - 2011
We propose a theory that rising globalization and rising wage inequality are related because trade liberalization raises the demand facing highly competitive skill-intensive firms. In our model, only the lowest-cost firms participate in the global economy exactly along the lines of Melitz...
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Does Tariff Liberalization Increase Wage Inequality? Some Empirical Evidence
Milanovic, Branko - 2012
The objective of the paper is to answer an often-asked question : if tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two large data bases of wage inequality that have...
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Trade Protection and Industry Wage Structure in Poland
Goh, Chor-Ching - 2012
This study examines the impact of Poland's trade liberalization 1994-2001 on the industry wage structure. The liberalization was undertaken in preparation for Poland's accession to the European Union and was more pronounced in industries with larger shares of unskilled labor. Our analysis...
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Some Simple Analytics of Trade and Labor Mobility
Chaudhuri, Shubham - 2007
We study a simple, tractable model of labor adjustment in a trade model that allows us to analyze the economy's dynamic response to trade liberalization. Since it is a neoclassical market-clearing model, we can use duality techniques to study the equilibrium, and despite its simplicity a rich...
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Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy
Helpman, Elhanan - 2010
This paper develops a new framework for examining the distributional consequences of trade liberalization that is consistent with increasing inequality in every country, growth in residual wage inequality, rising unemployment, and reallocation within and between industries. While the opening of...
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Trade, Technology, and Wage Inequality
Hanson, Gordon H.; Harrison, Ann E. - 2021
In Mexico during the 1980s, the wages of more-educated, more- experienced workers rose relative to those of less-educated, less- experienced workers. We assess the extent to which the increase in the skilled-unskilled wage gap was associated with Mexico's recent trade reform. In particular, we...
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Is Mexico a Lumpy Country?
Bernard, Andrew B.; Robertson, Raymond; Schott, Peter K. - 2021
Mexico's experience before and after trade liberalization presents a challenge to neoclassical trade theory. Though labor abundant, it nevertheless exported skill-intensive goods and protected labor-intensive sectors prior to liberalization. Post-liberalization, the relative wage of skilled...
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