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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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Reciprocity and the China Shock

Bown, Chad P.; Caliendo, Lorenzo; Parro, Fernando; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We formalize the GATT/WTO principle of reciprocity in workhorse quantitative trade models, characterizing reciprocal tariff cuts that hold terms of trade fixed and investigating their labor-market impacts. We provide closed-form expressions mapping reciprocal tariff cuts to labor market...

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Did Trade Liberalization Help Women? The Case of Mexico in the 1990s

Aguayo-Tellez, Ernesto - 2010

With the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Mexico entered a bilateral free trade agreement which not only lowered its own tariffs on imports but also lowered tariffs on its exports to the U.S. We find that women's relative wage increased, particularly during the...

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Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Trade Liberalization

Davis, Donald R. - 2007

features aggregate unemployment and jobs that pay different wages to identical workers. Simulations show that, for reasonable …

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Trade, Inequality, and Poverty : What Do We Know? Evidence from Recent Trade Liberalization Episodes in Developing Countries

Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2004

We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the analysis of micro data from several developing countries that underwent significant trade reforms in recent years. Despite many measurement and identification difficulties, and...

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Trade Reforms, Labor Regulations and Labor-Demand Elasticities : Empirical Evidence from India

Hasan, Rana - 2003

Using industry-level data disaggregated by states, this paper finds a positive impact of trade liberalization on labor-demand elasticities in the Indian manufacturing sector. These elasticities turn out to be negatively related to protection levels that vary across industries and over time....

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Trade Reforms and Wage Inequiality in Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio - 2003

, changes in industry wages that hurt sectors with initially lower wages and a higher fraction of unskilled workers, and shifts … of the labor force towards the informal sector that typically pays lower wages and offers no benefits. Our results … industry wages, we find that wage premiums decreased by more in sectors that experienced larger tariff cuts. Finally, we find …

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What Has Happened to Wages in Mexico since NAFTA?

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2003

reform paid their workers high wages, and raised the premium paid to workers in states along the U.S. border. These changes …

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Wage Effects of A U.S. - Mexican Free Trade Agreement

Leamer, Edward E. - 1992

designed to maintain wages of low-skilled workers. With or without a free trade agreement. the United States faces a …

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Wage Effects of Trade Reform with Endogenous Worker Mobility

Krishna, Pravin - 2011

increase in average wages in exporting firms relative to domestic firms, consistent with earlier studies. However, using … the differential impact of trade openness on the wages of workers at exporting firms relative to otherwise identical …, non-random labor market allocation mechanisms, in determining the effects of trade policy changes on wages …

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