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How Do Households Adjust to Trade Liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO Accession
Dai, Mi; Huang, Wei; Zhang, Yifan - 2018
regional variation in the exposure to tariff cuts resulting from WTO entry. Regions that initially specialized in industries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873432
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International Import Competition and the Decision to Migrate: Evidence from Mexico
Majlesi, Kaveh; Narciso, Gaia - 2015
. We exploit the variation in exposure to competition from China, following its accession to the WTO in 2001, across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208734
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The European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human Rights: Introduction
Nissen, Aleydis - In: Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy, (pp. 1-20). 2022
Emerging and developing states are home to powerful corporations capable of deploying economic activities on a global scale. But such corporations have to date been largely overlooked in the field of business and human rights. Treatment of such corporations has typically been in the context of...
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Why does the WTO have an Antidumping Agreement?
Hartigan, James C.; Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2010
antidumping (AD) laws amongst WTO members. Contrary to the regnant belief that this proliferation is driven mainly by retaliatory … motives, our model shows that adoption and use of AD laws involve a cooperative act amongst WTO members in an infinite horizon … game. The diffusion of AD laws need not result in a Prisonner.s dilemma. Instead we show that the AD agreement of the WTO …
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Directed sector and skill-specific technological change: The development of wages for the high and low skilled
Antony, Jürgen - 2003
This paper presents a dynamic two sector, two skill groups model of endogenous skill and sector specific technological change. The sectors refer to a high-tech” and a low-tech” sector of an economy. The direction of technological change is driven by market forces determined by the skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291687
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Trade, education, and the shrinking middle class
Blanchard, Emily; Willmann, Gerald - 2013
We develop a new model of trade in which educational institutions drive comparative advantage and determine the distribution of human capital within and across countries. Our framework exploits a multiplicity of sectors and the continuous support of human capital choices to demonstrate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291881
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Private labels and international trade: Trading variety for volume
Blanchard, Emily; Chesnokova, Tatyana; Willmann, Gerald - 2013
This paper explores the role of pooled-producer, e.g. private label, trade intermediation in shaping the range and diversity of exports. Direct sales maintain a firm's unique product characteristics (brand equity), whereas trade through an intermediary can take two forms - either a wholesaling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291887
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Short and long run decompositions of OECD wage in[e]quality changes
Edwards, T. Huw; Whalley, John - 2002
This paper focuses on the causes of increased wage inequality in OECD countries in recent years and its decomposition into the component factors of trade surges in low wage products and technological change that has preoccupied the trade and wages literature. It argues that the length of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292022
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Creative destruction and unemployment in an open economy model
Stepanok, Ignat - 2013
I develop a model of endogenous economic growth and search and matching frictions in the labor market. I study the effect of trade liberalization between two identical economies on unemployment. I solve for two versions of the growth model, the first one where trade liberalization has only a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292719
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Private labels and international trade: Trading variety for volume
Blanchard, Emily; Chesnokova, Tatyana; Willmann, Gerald - 2013
This paper explores the role of pooled-producer, e.g. private label, trade intermediation in shaping the range and diversity of exports. Direct sales maintain a firm's unique product characteristics ('brand equity'), whereas trade through an intermediary can take two forms - either a wholesaling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292730