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Trade Liberalisation Does Not Always Raise Wage Premia: Evidence from Ugandan Districts
Calì, Massimiliano - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2012
country like Uganda in light of a standard Heckscher-Ohlin (H-O) framework. But was the trade opening responsible for the … to be responsible for at least some of the rising returns to schooling among wage employees in Uganda. …
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Tariff pass-through and the distributional effects of trade liberalization
Ural Marchand, Beyza - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 2, pp. 265-281
the effect on prices of tradable goods and wages. The cost of consumption for each household is affected by the domestic …
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Firm heterogeneity and trade-induced layoffs: An empirical investigation
Uysal, Pinar; Yotov, Yoto V.; Zylkin, Thomas - In: European Economic Review 75 (2015) C, pp. 80-97
We use a novel data set with verified observations of trade-induced layoffs by U.S. firms to study the interaction between firm productivity and trade liberalization as key determinants of firm-level job destruction due to trade. We find that patterns of trade-induced layoffs are broadly...
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The Gains from Trade in a New Model from the IMF: Still Very Small
Rosnick, David - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2015
This paper takes a careful look at a recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) Working Paper that claims to find significant gains for liberalization of trade through the World Trade Organization. It is not clear that the reported gains are at all large. The IMF paper shows that multilateral...
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Firm Heterogeneity and Trade-Induced Layoffs: An Empirical Investigation
Yotov, Yoto V.; Zylkin, Thomas; Uysal, Pinar - LeBow College of Business, Drexel University - 2014
We use a novel data set with verified observations of trade-induced layoffs by U.S. firms to study the interaction between firm productivity and trade liberalization as key determinants of firm-level job destruction due to trade. We find that patterns of trade-induced layoffs are broadly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145244
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The impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing employment and wages in Egypt 1990-2007
Said, Mona; Elshennawy, Abeer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper explores the impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing employment and wages over a period 1993-2006, a … increase in wages in manufacturing industries though the role of export orientation in influencing poor wages has not been …
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Trade, Firms, and Wages: Theory and Evidence
Amiti, Mary; Davis, Donald R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
How does trade liberalization affect wages? This is the first paper to consider in theory and data how the impact of … final and intermediate input tariff cuts on workers’ wages varies with the global engagement of their firm. Our model … predicts that a fall in output tariffs lowers wages at import-competing firms, but boosts wages at exporting firms. Similarly …
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Trade, Trade Policy and Poverty: What Are The Links?
Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
employment and wages); changes in government revenue and expenditure; changes in risk and vulnerability; effects on economic …
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Exporting, skills and wage inequality
Klein, Michael W.; Moser, Christoph; Urban, Dieter M. - In: Labour Economics 25 (2013) C, pp. 76-85
International trade has been cited as a source of widening wage inequality in industrial nations. Most previous empirical evidence supports this claim by showing an effect in which increasing exports tilt demand towards firms which export and employ a relatively large proportion of...
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Trade Liberalization and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Brazil
Gaddis, Isis; Pieters, Janneke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
While there is a large literature analyzing the distributional impacts of trade reforms across the income or skill distribution, very little is known about the gender effects of trade reforms. This paper seeks to fill this gap and investigates the impact of Brazil's 1987-1994 trade...
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