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Globalization, Fertility and Marital Behavior in a Lowest-Low Fertility Setting
Giuntella, Osea; Rotunno, Lorenzo; Stella, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on …
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Globalization, Trade Imbalances and Inequality
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Traiberman, Sharon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We investigate the role of trade imbalances for the distributional consequences of globalization. We do so through the … that modelling trade imbalances can lead to stark differences between short- and long-run consequences of globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334406
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Global Value Chains and Labor Standards : The Race-to-the-Bottom Problem
Im, Hye-jun; McLaren, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We ask how globalization affects a government's incentives to set labor standards for its workers. In a stylized … with globalization than it would under autarky, because labor standards are a normal good and the general increase in … incomes from globalization increases demand for them. We call this the effect of `globalization in the large.' Second, if more …
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Disentangling Various Explanations for the Declining Labor Share : Evidence from Millions of Firm Records
Harrison, Ann E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
companies to disentangle the role of technological change, market power, and globalization in driving a fall in the labor share … measured using four firm and twenty firm concentration ratios and globalization is measured as export shares in total revenues … smaller. Finally, the evidence on globalization is mixed: trade shares are at times negatively associated with the labor share …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468215
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Restaurant Employment, Minimum Wages, and Border Discontinuities
Dube, Arindrajit; Reich, Michael; Bhatt, Akash; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Dube, Lester and Reich (2010, DLR), using state minimum wage discontinuities across bordering counties and Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages data, did not detect negative minimum wage effects on restaurant employment. Jha, Neumark and Rodriguez-Lopez (2024, JNR) claim that looking within...
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Own-Wage Elasticity : Quantifying the Impact of Minimum Wages on Employment
Dube, Arindrajit; Zipperer, Ben - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The own-wage elasticity (OWE) of employment estimated using minimum wage increases provides an economically meaningful measure of the policy on jobs. We discuss how to interpret the magnitude of the OWE, including in terms of welfare and under alternative models of the labor market. We present a...
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Of Markets and Marriages : A Multidisciplinary, Multibook Review Essay of Recent Work on the Causes of U.S. Poverty
Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
I discuss recent books offering differing explanations for persistent U.S. poverty. Desmond (2023) argues that aid to low-income Americans is captured by more powerful market actors. I contextualize this concern as about incidence and consider both policies for changing incidence (by changing...
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Accounting for the Evolution of China's Production and Trade Patterns
Huang, Hanwei; Ju, Jiandong; Yue, Vivian Z. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the evolution of China's production and trade patterns during its integration into the global economy. We document and explain new facts concerning changes in production and exports at the industry and firm levels using microdata and a quantitative Ricardian and...
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When Protectionism Kills Talent
Canayaz, Mehmet I.; Erel, Isil; Gurun, Umit G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine the repercussions of protectionist policies implemented in the United States since 2018 on the composition of workforce and career choices within the semiconductor industry. We find that the shift towards protectionism, aimed at reviving domestic manufacturing and employment,...
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Mechanics of Spatial Growth
Cai, Sheng; Caliendo, Lorenzo; Parro, Fernando; Xiang, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop a dynamic spatial growth model to explore the role of trade and internal migration in the process of spatial development and aggregate growth. Growth is shaped by the best global and local ideas that contribute to the local stock of knowledge. Global ideas diffuse more to locations...
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