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Can anti-dumping tariffs increase employment? We compile data on all antidumping (AD) investigations in Brazil matching … it to firm-level administrative employment information. Using difference-in-differences, we find that, an AD tariff … decreases imports and increases employment in the protected sector. Moreover, downstream firms decrease employment, while …
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This paper examines the cross-country income and welfare consequences of trade-induced human capital (dis-)accumulation. The model is based on heterogeneous workers who make educational decisions in the presence of complete markets. When such heterogeneous workers invest in schooling, high type...
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The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals that while much has already been achieved in both these economies, the Chinese reforms, especially with respect to manufacturing trade, have gone further and that this is likely...
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subordinate position of women carpet weavers within the household; as a form of employment, it has hardly affected the social …
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What is the impact of import competition from low-wage countries (LWCs) on inflationary pressure in Europe? This paper … contrast, no effect is present for import competition from low-wage countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Decomposing the …, LWC import competition is shown to have substantially reduced employment in the European manufacturing sector. …
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Import competition from China is pervasive in the sense that for many good categories, the competitive environment that US firms face in these markets is strongly driven by the prices of Chinese imports, and so is their pricing decision. This paper quantifies the effect of the...
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outsourcing activities, thereby increasing the wage dispersion and, if labour markets are unionised, also the employment of high … second, that outsourcing to these countries significantly shifts relative employment in favour of high- skilled labour. …
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This paper focuses on the ability of the labor market to correctly match heterogeneous workers to jobs within a given industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched worker-firm data from Sweden, we find strong evidence that openness improves the matching between...
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Recent theoretical analysis suggests that a reduction in the cost of exporting increases the degree of assortative matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce the cost of imports have an ambiguous impact on matching. We combine detailed Swedish matched...
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Engagement in foreign markets can have an impact on firm organization and on the type of occupations that a firm needs. We examine the effect of globalization on the occupational mix using detailed Swedish data that cover all firms and a representative sample of the labor force for 1997-2005. We...
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