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study three sets of outcomes: manufacturing employment, labor informality, and average wage. We find that rising Chinese … import competition have negatively affected manufacturing and nontradable employment. Some workers were pushed into … were pushed out of manufacturing, while more skilled and professional workers were not affected by Chinese competition. We …
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This paper estimates the effects of NAFTA on labor and wages in Mexico using a local labor-markets approach. While NAFTA offered greater export opportunities to Mexican firms that may raise employment, it also opened the door to increased import competition that may dampen employment gains. This...
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We analyze how local labor markets in Mexico adjusted in response to an increase in Chinese import competition between 1998 and 2013. We exploit the spatial variation in import exposure arising from initial differences in industry specialization. We found that the adjustment took various forms:...
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This paper studies the impact of import competition from China on informality and wages in the Peruvian manufacturing …
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This paper studies the impact that import competition from China had on firms performance in the manufacturing sector … reveal that Peruvian firms reacted to increased competition from Chinese manufacturing goods mainly by altering their factor …
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By exploiting spatial variation in import exposure arising from initial differences in industry specialization, we analyze how local labor markets in Mexico adjusted to increased Chinese-import competition over different time horizons. The initial adjustment to the shock took various forms: a...
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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 …
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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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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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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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