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The labor market power of exporting firms : evidence from Latin America

Amodio, Francesco; Brancati, Emanuele; Roux, Nicolás de; … - 2024

Using establishment-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, we assess the market power of exporting firms across 16 countries in Latin America. Leveraging information on export destinations, as well as exchange rate and price data, we construct exchange rate-driven shocks to the...

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Effects of credit supply on unemployment and inequality

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Dinopoulos, Elias; Unel, Bulent - 2016

The Great Recession, which was preceded by the financial crisis, resulted in higher unemployment and inequality. We propose a simple model where firms producing varieties face labor-market frictions and credit constraints. In the model, tighter credit leads to lower output, lower number of...

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India's GVC integration : an analysis of upgrading efforts and facilitation of lead firms

Ray, Saon; Miglani, Smita - 2020

India presents an unique example of manufacturing capability in most sectors, but low integration into GVCs. This paper examines the reasons for India's low integration into GVCs, especially in the manufacturing sector. It argues that one of the reasons for India's low integration into GVCs is...

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Immigration and offshoring : two forces of globalisation and their impact on employment and the bargaining power of occupational groups

Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2020

This paper estimates conditional demand models and, using a joint approach for the period 2008-2017, examines the impact of immigration and different measures of offshoring on the labour demand and demand elasticities of native workers in four different types of occupational groups:...

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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...

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Globalization and inequality in Latin America

Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - 2023

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … that focus on distinct aspects of globalization's relationship to inequality. …

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