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The answer to competition from emerging countries with low wage costs must be very different according to the affected sector. We need to draw a distinction between manufacturing industry and services that can be relocated and other sectors: consumer services, retail, construction, most business...
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What explains Germany's superb export performance? Is Germany's export behaviour very distinct compared to other … countries. We examine the export business model of the median exporter and of the top one percent exporters in each country … export market share of the median exporter in each of the countries to the world more than tripled (in some cases the export …
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Based on a dataset of manufacturing sectors from five major European economies (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the …
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, firms that engage in the foreign production of final goods, in addition to export activities, are more productive than firms … that only export abroad. Second, firms that engage in final goods off-shoring are more productive than firms that engage in …
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Trade liberalization affects real-wage inequality through two channels: the distribution of nominal wages across workers and, if the rich and the poor consume different bundles of goods, the distribution of price indices across consumers. I provide a unified framework incorporating both channels...
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We build an equilibrium model of a small open economy with labor market frictions and imperfectly enforced regulations. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual simulations to understand how trade affects...
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This paper advances the literature on the impacts of new technologies on labour markets, focusing on wage and labour income shares. Using a dataset from 32 countries and 38 industries, we analyse the effects of new technologies - proxied by patents, information and communication technology (ICT)...
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