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Economic Shocks and Crime : Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization

Dix-Carneiro, Rafael - 2017

This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in … Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to local economies. We document that regions exposed to larger … tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in crime following liberalization. Next, we investigate through what …

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Trade Liberalization and Mortality : Evidence from U.S. Counties

Pierce, Justin R. - 2016

We investigate the impact of a large economic shock on mortality. We find that counties more exposed to a plausibly …

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Redistribution of Local Labor Market Shocks through Firms’ Internal Networks

Giroud, Xavier - 2016

Local labor market shocks are difficult to insure against. Using confidential micro data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database, we document that firms redistribute the employment impacts of local demand shocks across regions through their internal networks of...

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Exporters and Shocks : Dissecting the International Elasticity Puzzle

Fitzgerald, Doireann - 2014

We use micro data for Ireland to estimate how export participation and the export revenue of incumbent exporters respond to tariffs and real exchange rates. Both participation and revenue, but especially revenue, are more responsive to tariffs than to real exchange rates. Our estimates translate...

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Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium : A Local Labor Markets Approach

Dix-Carneiro, Rafael - 2015

methodology to Brazil's early 1990s trade liberalization and find statistically significant but modest effects of liberalization …

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Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform

Menezes-Filho, Naércio Aquino - 2011

Tracking individual workers across jobs after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that tariff cuts trigger …

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Regional Adjustment to Trade Liberalization

Hanson, Gordon H. - 1994

In this paper, I study the effect of economic integration with the United States on state-industry employment growth in Mexico. I disentangle the effects of two opposing forces on regional labor demand: transport-cost considerations, which, all else equal, encourage firms to relocate their...

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Geographic Dispersion of Economic Shocks : Evidence from the Fracking Revolution

Feyrer, James - 2015

. This technological shift interacts with local geology to create an exogenous shock to county income and employment. We …

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Locate Your Nearest Exit : Mass Layoffs and Local Labor Market Response

Foote, Andrew - 2015

Large shocks to local labor markets can cause long-lasting changes to employment, unemployment and the local labor force. This study examines the relationship between mass layoffs and the long-run size of the local labor force. It considers four main channels through which the local labor force...

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The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States

Autor, David H. - 2013

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional...

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