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Better, Faster, Stronger : Global Innovation and Trade Liberalization
Coelli, Federica - 2016
This paper estimates the effect of trade policy during the Great Liberalization of the 1990s on innovation in over 60 countries using international firm-level patent data. The empirical strategy exploits ex-ante differences in firms' exposure to countries and industries, allowing us to construct...
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Open Borders
Kennan, John - 2012
There is a large body of evidence indicating that cross-country differences in income levels are associated with differences in productivity. If workers are much more productive in one country than in another, restrictions on immigration lead to large efficiency losses. The paper quantifies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460354
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Analyzing the Labor Market Outcomes of Occupational Licensing
Gittleman, Maury - 2015
Recent assessments of occupational licensing have shown varying effects of the institution on labor market outcomes. This study revisits the relationship between occupational licensing and labor market outcomes by analyzing a new topical module to the Survey of Income and Program Participation...
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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
Akerman, Anders - 2015
Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data to answer these questions. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457840
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The French (Trade) Revolution of 1860 : Intra-Industry Trade and Smooth Adjustment
Becuwe, Stéphane - 2018
The Cobden-Chevalier treaty of 1860 eliminated many French import prohibitions and lowered tariffs between France and … other nations followed because of the use of the unconditional-MFN clause. Post-1860 in France, we find a significant rise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480825
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Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium : A Local Labor Markets Approach
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael - 2015
We develop a specific-factors model of regional economies that includes two types of workers, skilled and unskilled. The model delivers a simple equation relating trade-induced local shocks to changes in local skill premia. We apply the methodology to Brazil's early 1990s trade liberalization...
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Trade Liberalization, Quality, and Export Prices
Fan, Haichao - 2014
Chinese data and robust to various estimation specifications …
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Supply-Side Policies in the Depression : Evidence from France
Cohen-Setton, Jérémie - 2016
evidence from France in the 1930s. In 1936, France departed from the gold standard and implemented mandatory wage increases and …
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Can Unemployment Insurance Spur Entrepreneurial Activity?
Hombert, Johan - 2014
We study a large-scale French reform that provided generous downside insurance for unemployed individuals starting a business. We study whether this reform affects the composition of people who are drawn into entrepreneurship. New firms started in response to the reform are, on average, smaller,...
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Does Government Intervention Affect Banking Globalization?
Kleymenova, Anya - 2016
globalization along three dimensions: depth, breadth and persistence. We examine depth by studying whether a bank's preference for … country or nationalized banks from different countries, consistent with an impact on the breadth of globalization. Third, we … government interventions affect the depth and breadth of banking globalization, but may not persist after public interventions …
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