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Trade Induced Structural Change and the Skill Premium
Cravino, Javier - 2017
We study how international trade affects manufacturing employment and the relative wage of unskilled workers when goods and services are traded with different intensities. Manufacturing trade reduces manufacturing prices worldwide, which reduces manufacturing employment if manufactures and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954463
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International Trade and Structural Change
Ben-David, Dan; Papell, David H. - 2021
In light of the substantial movement towards trade liberalization during the postwar period, this paper attempts to determine if, and when, countries experienced statistically significant changes in the paths of their export-GDP and import-GDP ratios. We find that: (1) most trade ratios...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244893
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China's Growing Economic Activity in Africa
Besada, Hany - 2008
Trade between the whole of Africa and China (imports and exports summed) grew from $10.6 billion to $73.3 billion … between 2000 and 2007, and between Sub-Saharan Africa and China from $7 billion to $59 billion over the same period. China is … million in 1990 to $2.6 billion in 2006. On the basis of these data, one frequently hears the claim that China is now a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771826
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Exporting from China : The Determinants of Trade Status
Cooper, Russell; Gong, Guan; Hu, Guanliang; Yan, Ping - 2022
This paper studies the exporting decision of Chinese manufacturing firms. The economic framework stresses the dynamic decision by both state controlled and private entities to export in a model with labor adjustment costs. In this complex environment, a simple decision rule whereby export status...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243781
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Trade and Inequality : From Theory to Estimation
Helpman, Elhanan - 2012
While neoclassical theory emphasizes the impact of trade on wage inequality between occupations and sectors, more recent theories of firm heterogeneity point to the impact of trade on wage dispersion within occupations and sectors. Using linked employer-employee data for Brazil, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107761
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Trade, Variety, and Immigration
Bo, Chen - 2012
What are the gains from international trade? And how do immigrants influence this process? While economists have considered these questions before, particularly in the context of aggregate trade flows, there has been no work assessing the relation between immigration and international trade in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108248
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Which Parts of Globalization Matter for Catch-Up Growth?
Romer, Paul M. - 2014
life expectancies in poor and rich countries began to converge. Another example comes from China, where authorities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070271
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International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers
Keller, Wolfgang - 2014
This paper examines how international flows of technological knowledge affect economic performance across industries and firms in different countries. Motivated by the large share of the world's technology investments made by firms that are active across borders, we focus on international trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070643
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Riding the Wave of Trade : Explaining the Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization
Huberman, Michael - 2010
The received view pins the adoption of labor regulation before 1914 on domestic forces. Using directed dyad-year event history analysis, we find that trade was also a pathway of diffusion. Market access served as an important instrument to encourage a level playing field. The type of trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150840
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Trade Booms, Trade Busts, and Trade Costs
Jacks, David S. - 2010
What has driven trade booms and trade busts in the past and present? We derive a micro-founded measure of trade frictions from leading trade theories and use it to gauge the importance of bilateral trade costs in determining international trade flows. We construct a new balanced sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151143