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Value addition, jobs and skills: A study of India's exports

Das, Deb Kusum; Kukreja, Prateek - 2020

Exports serve as an engine of economic growth and can potentially help countries come out of poverty and unemployment …. However, as the production process is increasingly getting fragmented globally, greater exports no longer imply higher … domestic production, as imports of intermediate products used as inputs in exports also increase. Global Value Chains (GVCs …

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The effects of international trade on gender inequality: women carpet weavers of Iran

Karimi, Zahra - 2008

competition has reduced the weavers' real wages and restructured the labor force of the industry and poor Afghan immigrant …

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Do exporters import gender inequality?

Lark, Olga; Videnord, Josefin - 2023

. We motivate the analysis through a stylized model where wages depend on worker productivity, and men have a comparative … driven by trade with gender-unequal countries; we find no impact on the gender wage gap when firms increase their exports to …

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Bargaining for trade: When exporting becomes detrimental for female wages

Halvarsson, Daniel; Lark, Olga; Tingvall, Patrik; … - 2022

In this paper we study the link between globalization of firms and gender inequality. Specifically, we examine how the need for interpersonal contacts in trade and gender-specific differences in negotiations are related to the gender wage gap. Our key finding is that export of goods that are...

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Trade competition, technology and labor re-allocation

Bahar Baziki, Selva; Ginja, Rita; Borota Milicevic, Teodora - 2016

This paper studies the changes in labor allocation across firms and industries in response to changes in technology (captured by the adoption of information and communication technologies, ICT) and import competition, due to increased exposure to trade competition from China. We use detailed...

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International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants

Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020

, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …

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International Trade and Labor Market - Integration of Immigrants

Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020

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Immigration and native welfare

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2004

We unify two approaches towards identifying native welfare effects of immigration, one emphasizing the immigration surplus (Borjas, 1995,1999), the other identifying a welfare loss due to terms-of-trade effects (Davis & Weinstein, 2002). We decompose the native welfare effect of immigration into...

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Global Engagement, Complex Tasks, and the Distribution of Occupational Employment

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2015

Building on a framework introduced by Chaney and Ossa (2013), we construct a task-based model of the firm's choice of occupational inputs to examine how that choice varies with greater global engagement. We depart from Chaney and Ossa by assuming that more complex tasks are more costly to...

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Lasting Effects of an Import Shock: Channels of Adjustment

Knutsson, Polina - 2020

This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment to study the channels of labor market adjustment to an import shock. Using matched employer-employee data from Sweden, I study workers' adjustment after the removal of quotas set out by the Multi-Fiber Arrangement for Chinese producers upon China's...

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