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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455281
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455831
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456282
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458696
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461286
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457754
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474215
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Regional Nonadjustment and Fiscal Policy : Lessons for EMU
Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999
How will countries handle idiosyncratic national macroeconomic shocks under the European single currency? The ways in which European countries now react to internally asymmetric shocks provide a better forecast than do the regional response pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471641
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Exchange Rates and Local Labor Markets
Goldberg, Linda - 1999
We document the consequences of real exchange rate movements for the employment, hours, and hourly earnings of workers in manufacturing industries across individual states. Exchange rates have statistically significant wage and employment implications in these local labor markets. The importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471823
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Spatial Linkages, Global Shocks, and Local Labor Markets : Theory and Evidence
Adão, Rodrigo - 2019
flexible structure of spatial linkages, we characterize the model-consistent shock exposure of a local market as the exogenous … directly to the market's own shock exposure, and indirectly to other markets shocks exposures. We show how spatial linkages … control the size and the heterogeneity of these indirect effects. We then develop a new estimation methodology - the Model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479498