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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women
Heath, Rachel; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
-proximate villages. The demand for education generated through manufacturing growth appears to have a much larger effect on female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887111
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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Hanson, Gordon; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and that, through input-output linkages and other general equilibrium …-level approaches to estimate the size of (a) employment losses in directly exposed manufacturing industries, (b) employment effects in …
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The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
Autor, David; Hanson, Gordon; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
-quarter of the contemporaneous aggregate decline in U.S. manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment …
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Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform
Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Menezes-Filho, Naércio Aquino - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Tracking individual workers across jobs after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that tariff cuts trigger worker displacements, but neither exporters nor comparative-advantage sectors absorb trade-displaced labor. On the contrary, exporters separate from significantly more and hire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277263
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Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers Using the Current Population Surveys
Harrison, Ann E.; McMillan, Margaret Mcmillan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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 … worker wages through the reallocation of workers away from higher wage manufacturing jobs into other sectors and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036809
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Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets
Autor, David; Hanson, Gordon; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
employment, particularly in manufacturing and among non-college workers. Labor markets susceptible to computerization due to … specialization in routine task-intensive activities experience significant occupational polarization within manufacturing and … appears to shift from automation of production activities in manufacturing towards computerization of information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821867
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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098922
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Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics: Evidence From 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Data
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We empirically study the dynamics of labor market adjustment following the Brazilian trade reform of the 1990s. We use variation in industry-specific tariff cuts interacted with initial regional industry mix to measure trade-induced local labor demand shocks, and then examine regional and...
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Simulating the Elimination of the U.S. Corporate Income Tax
Fehr, Hans; Kotlikoff, Laurence; Jokisch, Sabine; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We simulate corporate tax reform in a single good, five-region (U.S., Europe, Japan, China, India) model, featuring skilled and unskilled labor, detailed region-specific demographics and fiscal policies. Eliminating the model's U.S. corporate income tax produces rapid and dramatic increases in...
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International Trade, Multinational Activity, and Corporate Finance
Foley, C. Fritz; Manova, Kalina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
An emerging new literature brings unique ideas from corporate finance to the study of international trade and investment. Insights about differences in the development of financial institutions across countries, the role of financial constraints, and the use of internal capital markets are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951398