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Changes in the Wage Gap of Gender and Caste Groups in India

Jacob, Marilyn - 2006

We explore the changes in the wage gap of caste and gender groups in India. Traditional Hindu society divided people …

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ESSAYS ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INEQUALITY

Paz, Lourenco Senne - 2009

In this dissertation I assess the impact of developing country trade liberalization on their wage inequality by focusing on two possible channels, namely job formality and inter-industry wage premium. Informal workers are a large share of the workforce, more than 30% in Brazil and Colombia, and...

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Beyond the Invisible: The Impact of Trade Liberalization and Formalization on Small Businesses in Colombia

Fandl, Kevin J. - 2010

Trade liberalization in Latin America has substantially altered business opportunities andeconomic development in the region. As barriers to competing inputs have come down andforeign investment in the region has gone up, small, domestic firms have struggled to stayafloat. Many small businesses...

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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality

Lamanna, Francesca - 2013

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Analyzing Potential Effects of Preferential Liberalization in Some Asian Emerging Economies

School of Economics and Finance

BIMSTEC, a regional grouping of South and Southeast Asian countries, is heading towards an FTA for greater economic integration. The present paper examines the ex ante effects of the iniative by adopting SMART and GTAP models. Based on estimated export supply elasticity, the results of SMART...

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Preferential Tariffs, WTO and Developing Countries: Do the Gains from Multilateral Market Access Outweigh Preferential Access?

Elbehri, Aziz; Wainio, John - 2006

WTO trade negotiations on market access follow the MFN treatment. However, an increasing share of trade falls under preferential regimes. For agriculture, trade liberalization analyses have showed that the impact on developing countries (DC) is not uniform, partly from omitting preferences. In...

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Enlargement of Trade Blocs: National Welfare Effects If Trade Is Liberalized

Glebe, Thilo W.; Salhofer, Klaus - 2006

Small countries may benefit from the formation of a trade bloc, since their combined market power will enable them to manipulate the terms of trade. The question of interest is whether countries will benefit from the enlargement of a trading bloc, if trade liberalization induces countries to...

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Meta-Analysis of General and Partial Equilibrium Simulations of Doha Round Outcomes

Hess, Sebastian; von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan - 2006

Quantification of welfare changes due to trade liberalisation play a crucial role for political decision making. However, meaningful comparisons of simulation results from different sources are difficult. Often significant differences in simulated gains from liberalisation do not serve to...

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Effect of NAFTA on Mexico's Income Distribution in the Presence of Migration

Garduno-Rivera, Rafael - 2010

This paper asks how NAFTA affected income distribution within Mexico considering changes in internalmigration. Trade …, anecdotal evidence indicates that NAFTA increased the gap between rich andpoor in Mexico. Understanding the distributional … Mexico. Because trade may affect wages differentlyacross regions within the country, accurate trade welfare measures must …

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International Trade Liberalization Impact on the U.S. Peanut Industry

Carley, Dale H.; Fletcher, Stanley M. - 1993

The acceptance of the NAFTA and GATT trade agreements will impact the U.S. peanut industry. This paper examines trade distorting policies and evaluates the effects of trade liberalization on peanut producers, shellers, manufactures, and U.S. consumers of peanut products. Decreasing marketing...

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