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Export processing zones (EPZs) are an increasingly common type of special economic zone. They are designed to facilitate international trade by lowering trade costs, such as import duties and/or export taxes. EPZs should thus be particularly attractive locations for multinational enterprises...
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between trade and wages are addressed through the use of a gravity-based sector-level instrument. We find no evidence …
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the wages of different skill groups in a broad global context. The analysis draws on input-output data from the WIOD … offshoring on wages mainly concerns low and medium skilled workers. However, in terms of magnitude, the downward pressure on … domestic wages exhibited by offshoring to LWC is relatively small. LWC (Low wage countries) classifications employed in this …
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wages in ten Central and Eastern European countries in the period 2005-2014. We combine GVC measures of global import …-data on workers from EU-SILC. We find that the wages of CEEC workers are higher when their industry is at the beginning of the … associated with lower wages. Higher upstream, this effect is not sustained. …
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about a year on average and gain about 8% higher wages; women obtained a slightly greater increase in education and a … similar increase in wages. Clearly, there was a sizeable gain from being born late enough to take advantage of the greater …
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