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International competition, returns to skill, and labor market adjustment
Falvey, Rodney E.; Greenaway, David; Silva, Joana - 2018
Does increased import competition lead to higher returns to skill within an industry and, therefore, to greater incentives for skill acquisition? Does it also induce skill upgrading by the industry's existing workforce? To answer these questions, this paper follows individual workers across...
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How many dimensions do we trade in? : product space geometry and latent comparative advantage
Arvis, Jean-Francois - 2013
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Outsiders and regional trade agreements among small countries : the case of regional markets
Gupta, Anju; Schiff, Maurice W. - 1997
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Growth and risk : a view from international trade
Krishna, Pravin; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Maloney, William F. - 2020
(Harmonized System 10- digit) bilateral exports to the United States. The patterns in the data are consistent with the theory. The …
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The oil nouveau-riche and arms imports
Vézina, Pierre-Louis - 2020
Countries that strike it rich when exploring for oil and gas often fail to see growth materialize. This paper shows that one way things can get messy is via squandering new wealth, based on future resource revenues, on arms imports. In the five years following a giant oil or gas discovery, arms...
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The intensive margin in trade
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Klenow, Peter J.; Meleshchuk, … - 2018
in exports across trading partners should occur on the extensive margin. This paper subjects this theoretical prediction … to a reality check drawing upon the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) which has firm-level exports from 50 … developing countries to all destinations. Around 50 percent of the variation in exports across trading partners is shown to be …
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Tracing the local impacts of exports on poverty and inequality in Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Vazquez, Emmanuel; … - 2020
Evidence on the effect of exports on welfare at the local level is scarce. Using a unique data set of international … provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis … implements an instrumental variable approach that combines the initial structure of exports across municipalities with global …
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Medical migration : what can we learn from the UK's perspective?
Rutten, Martine (contributor) - 2008
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The labor market effects of foreign-owned firms
Almeida, Rita - 2004
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Career placement of skilled migrants in the U.S. labor market : a dynamic approach
Neagu, Ileana Cristina - 2009
"The initial occupational placements of male immigrants in the U.S. labor market vary significantly by country of origin even when education and other factors are taken into account. Does the heterogeneity persist over time? Using data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Censuses, this study...
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