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policies, particularly in a dollarized economy, highlighting the complex implications of trade measures on firm performance and …
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) have now become a defining feature of trade in goods and services globally. Economic Survey 2019-20 also highlighted the … the advent of GVCs, the official trade data does not go very far in explaining the job creating aspect of exports. Further …
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This paper analyzes whether Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) signed between the United States and Latin American countries … empirical strategy benefits from the fact that about half of Latin American countries have signed a trade agreement with the … of labor inspectors and a 60 percent increase in the number of inspections. The North American Free Trade Agreement …
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Despite the growing political priority given to making trade work for the majority in Latin America, a notable gap … exists in the knowledge about the distributive impacts of trade integration. This study attempts to fill this gap: it surveys … the most recent contributions to the mainstream trade economics literature, assesses their relevance for Latin America and …
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This paper studies the role of trade for the joint uptake of AI-enabled automation in manufacturing and engineering. It …-shaped curve for manufacturers and a boom and bust cycle for engineers. Trade affects the cut-off productivity rate at which … services from the high-wage country, a pattern similar to China's trade and AI development." …
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This paper studies the effect of firms'export activity on the gender wage gap among its workers. Using matched employer-employee data from Germany for the period be- tween 1993 and 2007, we show that an increase in a firm's export widens the wage gap between male and female blue-collar workers,...
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Although Russia's WTO-accession is foreseeable, there are still deficits in the literature on its concrete effects on the sectoral and regional levels. In this paper we analyse effects on Russia's chemical and petrochemical sectors (CPS), which are, unlike for example its oil and mineral gas...
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This paper explores the influence of the economic cycle on labour mobility within the EU, focusing on the likely impact of the present economic crisis. To do so, we use an econometrically calibrated simulation and a case study of Ireland. We find that, in the short run, the crisis is likely to...
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addressed through trade agreements for efficient cross-country delivery of goods and services. This has also been the case with … South and Southeast Asian Free Trade Agreements. The objective of this paper is to understand the prospects of enhancing … services trade, investment and cooperation between South and Southeast Asia, taking the example of India and Thailand, by …
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regional markets had not been deeper? Using highly disaggregated trade data and an analysis of industry perspectives based on … semi-structured interviews with a sample of firms and industry associations relevant to India's trade with ASEAN, the paper … found that despite low volumes, vertically specialized trade has been growing between India and ASEAN. Overall, there is …
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