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for labor, as measured by the change in wages and employment. We develop a structural model and estimate its reduced form … over the period are positively correlated with their employment levels, but only for tradable sectors. In the case of wages …
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market. Finally, the impact of globalisation on employment is analysed from various angles. In general, trade with low-wage …
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This paper compares the performance of the Mexican economy with that of the rest of the region over the past 20 years, based on the available economic and social indicators, and with its own past economic performance. Among the results it finds that Mexico ranks 18th out of 20 Latin American...
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This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …
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This paper documents patterns in international trade costs in processed foods for a large cross-section of developing and developed countries, during the 1976-2000 period. A trade costs index is inferred from a micro-founded gravity equation that incorporates bilateral `iceberg?trade costs. For...
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have been no studies on the association between trade facilitation and poverty as well as inequality. This paper examines … with poverty, inequality and per capita GDP. Countries with more improvement in trade facilitation are more likely to have … lower poverty and inequality, and higher per capita GDP than other countries with less improvement in trade facilitation. …
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In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China’s cost advantage in manufactures. This paper explores the evolution of China’s relative unit labor costs in manufacturing over 1998-2009. Between 1998 and 2003 China’s unit labor costs...
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processes are, per se, sufficient for poverty reduction and inequality abatement. Abundant work has analyzed the link between … tariff reduction, poverty levels and inequality in both developed and developing countries. Gains from trade are generally … trade, poverty and inequality by analyzing the impact of trade liberalization through two main transmission channels: prices …
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wage inequality widened relatively more between unskilled and skilled workers. The reasons for the persistence of … unemployment are discussed, the impact of the increasing unemployment and growing inequality in wage distribution on income … by the Argentine economy in the 1990s as well as the widening wage gap between skilled and unskilled labor came as a …
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This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization and international trade on household income inequality and … more exposed to tariff cuts experienced smaller reductions in household poverty and inequality. If significance of results … on Brazilian states depends on the choice of poverty and inequality indicators, robust and contrasting results emerge …
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