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The China - Raw Materials dispute recently arbitrated by the WTO opposed China as defendant to the US, the EU and … Mexico as claimants on the somewhat unusual issue of export restrictions on natural resources. For the claimants, Chinese … increasing the prices of these goods. China defends export limitations by presenting them as a natural resource conserving policy …
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competition from China. We do not find that Chinese import competition has a significant impact on the average wages of formal or …In this paper, we relate outcomes of El Salvadors local labor markets to their exposure to Chinese import competition … study three sets of outcomes: manufacturing employment, labor informality, and average wage. We find that rising Chinese …
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We analyze how local labor markets in Mexico adjusted in response to an increase in Chinese import competition between …
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Recent studies on oil market demonstrate endogeneity of oil price by modeling it as a function of consumption and precautionary demands and producers’ supply. However, studies analysing the effect of oil price uncertainty on investment, do not disentangle uncertainties raised by underlying...
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The paper studies the impact of ethnic diversity on social participation of young people. We first propose a theoretical model in which the agents choose between structured and unstructured social activities by taking into account the ethnic composition of the groups they join. We test our...
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The paper investigates the determinants of ethnic heterogeneity of the Italian provinces. Among other factors, the paper tests empirically whether gradual improvements in distant communication boost the generation of ethnically heterogeneous provinces. Consequently to easier communication,...
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