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I analyze the impact of a low-wage trade shock on manufacturing workers in a high-wage country, Denmark, and how they … illustrates the importance of industry-specific human capital in trade adjustment and provides initial evidence of skill upgrading … textile and clothing products in conjunction with China's accession to the WTO as a quasi-natural experiment and utilize …
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welfare. 5) The effects of trade on wage inequality are reversed when the informal sector is incorporated in the analysis. 6 … simulations to understand how trade affects economic outcomes in the presence of informality. We show the following: 1) Trade … productivity gains from trade are understated when the informal sector is omitted. 3) Trade openness results in large welfare gains …
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status and earnings level. -- International trade ; employment status ; individual wages …This paper studies the impact of international trade on individual labour market outcomes in the German manufacturing … sector for the period 1995-2006. Combining micro-level data from the German Socioeconomic Panel and industry-level trade data …
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This paper studies the impact of international trade on individual labour market outcomes in the German manufacturing … sector for the period 1995-2006. Combining micro-level data from the German Socioeconomic Panel and industry-level trade data … probability of becoming unemployed rises when workers are employed in Trade Sensitive industries and decreases for workers in …
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of the economy. Potential effects of intensified international competition and skillbiased technological change on the … international competition and technological change on the employment share of unskilled labor in the manufacturing sector. …
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of the economy. Potential effects of intensified international competition and skill-biased technological change on the … international competition and technological change on the employment share of unskilled labor in the manufacturing sector. …
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estimates (Kokas et al., 2020); while inequality could reach an unprecedented Gini level of 0.41. While Tunisia has faced …
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In the past two decades, China's manufacturing exports have grown spectacularly, U.S. imports from China have surged …, but U.S. exports to China have increased only modestly. Using representative, longitudinal data on individual earnings by … employer, we analyze the effect of exposure to import competition on earnings and employment of U.S. workers over 1992 through …
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2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter …We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the …
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2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter …We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the …
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