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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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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 …

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Stock Market Wealth and the Real Economy : A Local Labor Market Approach

Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel - 2019

of a stock market wealth shock when monetary policy is passive. A 20% increase in stock valuations, unless countered by … shock …

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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...

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