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Evolution of Asia's outward-looking economic policies: Some lessons from trade policy reviews

Daly, Michael - 2011

associated with such assistance. Trade Policy Reviews (TPRs) throw light not only on measures that appear to contravene WTO rules …, although that is not their purpose; more importantly, they identify measures not seemingly covered by WTO rules, which can … GATT/WTO, the stalling of negotiations in connection with the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) should not preclude further …

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Is trade liberalization a window of opportunity for women?

Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik - 2004

This paper analyses how trade affects women's job opportunities and earnings through five case studies: Mauritius, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. It is found that women's share of the labour force has increased over time and the wage gap between men and women has narrowed. It is...

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Potential economic effects of a global trade conflict: Projecting the medium-run effects with the WTO global trade model

Bekkers, Eddy; Teh, Robert - 2019

The WTO Global Trade Model is employed to project the medium-run economic effects of a global trade conflict. The trade …

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On the effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade: They are positive and large after all

Larch, Mario; Monteiro, José-Antonio; Piermartini, Roberta - 2019

whether and how much does GATT/WTO membership affect international trade. We are the first to capture the non …-discriminatory nature of GATT/WTO commitments by measuring the effects of GATT/WTO membership on international trade relative to domestic … sales. These unilateral effects of GATT/WTO membership are found to be large, positive, and statistically significant. We …

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The "China shock" revisited: Insights from value added trade flows

Jakubik, Adam; Stolzenburg, Victor - 2018

We exploit a decomposition of gross trade flows into their value added components to reassess the relationship between increased imports from China and manufacturing jobs in US local labour markets following the seminal paper of Autor, Dorn, and Hanson (2013, ADH). Decomposed trade flows enable...

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Trade, technology, and prosperity: An account of evidence from a labor-market perspective

Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2017

Trade and technological change continually alter the workplace and labor-market outcomes, with consequences for economy-wide welfare and the distribution of real incomes. This report assesses the state of economic research into those areas, with a particular focus on empirical methodologies and...

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General equilibrium trade policy analysis with structural gravity

Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2016

The objective of this manuscript is to serve as a practical guide for evaluation of the general equilibrium (GE) effects of trade policy using the structural gravity model. We try to achieve this objective in four steps. First, we focus on the original Armington CES gravity model, as a...

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Estimating trade policy effects with structural gravity

Piermartini, Roberta; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2016

The objective of this manuscript is to serve as a practical guide for estimations with the structural gravity model. After a brief review of the theoretical foundations, we summarize the main challenges with gravity estimations and we review the solutions to address those challenges. Then, we...

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International health worker mobility and trade in services

Carzaniga, Antonia Giulia; Dhillon, Ibadat S.; … - 2019

Despite its substantial and increasing importance to health systems and inclusive economic growth, the relationship between international trade in services and health worker mobility has been largely unexplored. However, international health worker mobility and trade in services have both been...

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Indisputably essential: The economics of dispute settlement institutions in trade agreements

Keck, Alexander; Schropp, Simon - 2007

Economic theory has made considerable progress in explaining why sovereign countries cooperate in trade. Central to most theories of trade cooperation are issues of self-enforcement: The threat of reprisal by an aggrieved party maintains the initial balance of concessions and prevents...

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