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Comparative Advantage, International Trade, and Fertility
Do, Quy-Toan; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Raddatz, Claudio - Research Seminar in International Economics, University …
We analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of comparative advantage in international trade on fertility. We … countries with comparative advantage in female-intensive goods are characterized by lower fertility. This is because female … countries with comparative advantage in industries employing primarily women exhibit lower fertility. We use a geography …
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Effects of Trade on Female Labor Force Participation
Zoabi, Hosny; Sauré, Philip - Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) - 2009
Male and female labor are imperfect substitutes and some sectors are more suitable for female employment than others. Clearly, expansions of those sectors that use female labor intensively must affect aggregate female labor force participation (FLFP). We suggest that FLFP actually drops when...
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Effects of Trade on Female Labor Force Participation
Zoabi, Hosny; Sauré, Philip - Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) - 2009
Male and female labor are imperfect substitutes and some sectors are more suitable for female employment than others. Clearly, expansions of those sectors that use female labor intensively must affect aggregate female labor force participation (FLFP). We suggest that FLFP actually drops when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008917445
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Effects of Trade on Female Labor Force Participation
Zoabi, Hosny; Saure, Philip - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2010
This paper uncovers a counter-intuitive effect of international trade on female labor shares: whenever trade expands, sectors intensive in female labor, female labor shares drop and vice versa. According to our key assumption a rising capital labor ratio closes the gender wage gap. The paper’s...
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Incomplete specialization and offshoring across Europe
Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evžen - FIW - 2012
Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has been done by analyzing gross trade flows related to offshore activities using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of supply-side country differences. This paper...
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International Trade and Unemployment: A Quantitative Framework
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - CESifo - 2012
Quantifying the welfare effects of trade liberalization is a core issue in international trade. Existing frameworks assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. We develop a quantitative trade framework which explicitly models labor...
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Jobs gained and lost through trade: The case of Germany
Lurweg, Maren; Westermeier, Andreas - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2010
The nature of international trade has changed significantly. For centuries, trade concentrated on the exchange of finished goods. It now increasingly involves bits of value that are added at different locations to combine into one final product. Therefore, trade in functions or tasks are of...
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Trade and labor demand in an emerging market economy: an analysis for Indian manufacturing during 1991-2010
Das, Simontini; Raychaudhuri, Ajitava; Roy, Saikat Sinha - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 3, pp. 353-379
The paper investigates into the impact of international trade on labor market in an emerging market economy. In specific, the paper estimates the impact of manufactured exports on demand for both production and non-production workers and employment elasticity for aggregate as well as...
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Labor Clauses in Regional Trade Agreements and Effects on Labor Conditions: An Empirical Analysis
Kamata, Isao - Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University - 2015
his paper attempts to perform an empirical analysis of the effects of “labor clauses” provided in bilateral or plurilateral trade agreements (or regional trade agreements: RTAs) on working conditions that laborers in the RTA signatory countries actually face, using macro-level data for a...
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Incomplete specialization and offshoring across Europe
Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen - Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS) - 2012
Research for evidence on offshoring activities and its driving forces has been done by analyzing gross trade flows related to offshoring using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of supply-side country differences. We develop a specification grounded in incomplete specialization that...
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