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Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries
Goldberg, Pinelopi; Pavcnik, Nina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We discuss recent empirical research on how globalization has affected income inequality in developing countries. We begin with a discussion of conceptual issues regarding the measurement of globalization and inequality. Next, we present empirical evidence on the evolution of globalization and...
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Trade, Offshoring, and the Invisible Handshake
Karabay, Bilgehan; McLaren, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We study the effect of globalization on the volatility of wages and worker welfare in a model in which risk is … trade hurts rich-country workers, while reducing the volatility of their wages; by contrast, offshoring benefits them, while … raising the volatility of their wages. We thus formalize, but also sharply circumscribe, a common critique of globalization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025632
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Importers, Exporters, and Multinationals: A Portrait of Firms in the U.S. that Trade Goods
Jensen, J. Bradford; Schott, Peter K.; Bernard, Andrew B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This paper provides an integrated view of globally engaged U.S. firms by exploring a newly developed dataset that links U.S. international trade transactions to longitudinal data on U.S. enterprises. These data permit examination of a number of new dimensions of firm activity, including how many...
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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women
Heath, Rachel; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...
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Endogenous Skill Acquisition and Export Manufacturing in Mexico
Atkin, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper presents empirical evidence that the growth of export manufacturing in Mexico during a period of major trade reforms, the years 1986-2000, altered the distribution of education. I use variation in the timing of factory openings across municipalities to show that school dropout...
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Informal Employment in a Growing and Globalizing Low-income Country
Pavcnik, Nina; McCaig, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We document several facts about workforce transitions from the informal to the formal sector in Vietnam, a fast growing, industrializing, and low-income country. First, younger workers, particularly migrants, are more likely to work in the formal sector and stay there permanently. Second, the...
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Skill Acquisition, Credit Constraints, and Trade
Krishna, Kala; Chesnokova, Tatyana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
This paper looks at the effect of credit constraints on skill acquisition when agents have heterogeneous abilities and wealth. We use a two factor general equilibrium model and assume credit markets are absent. We explore the effects of trade on factor earnings as well as the evolution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088688
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Export Markets and Labor Allocation in a Low-income Country
Pavcnik, Nina; McCaig, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the effects of an export shock on labor allocation across household businesses and employers in the formal enterprise sector in a low-income country, Vietnam. We find that workers reallocate from household businesses to employers in the formal enterprise sector, with greater...
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Trade and Inequality in India
Krishna, Pravin; Sethupathy, Guru - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
To study the effects of the dramatic economic reforms undertaken in India in the early 1990s on inequality, this paper examines Theil inequality as well as other inequality measures constructed using Indian household expenditure survey data from 1988-2005. Overall inequality shows some variation...
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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...
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