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This paper studies the implications for wage inequality of two distinct forms of globalisation, namely trade and …-ante homogeneous workers, heterogeneous firms and search and matching frictions into a multi-region model of trade and FDI with … monopolistic competition. The model allows me to account for the observed empirical patterns, and delivers novel insights about the …
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In this paper we demonstrate that intra-industry trade (or FDI)between identical countries could produce theobserved … deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers.This involves a model of North-Northintegration through either increased … trade flows or increased MNE-based production. Our motivation in this regardis arguments to the effect that trade cannot be …
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, a positive nonlinear relationship is found to exist. -- Wage Inequality ; Trade Liberalization ; Foreign Direct … of trade openness and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in explaining inter-industry wage differentials for the case of … Mexico. Using INEGI's National Survey of Urban Employment for the period 1994-2004, the empirical analysis is conducted on …
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evidence we do find is most likely due to factors unrelated to US-Mexico integration. While migration, trade, and FDI may … United States and Mexico over the last 25 years. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between these countries … during the period 1988 and 2011. We match survey and census data from Mexico and the United States to estimate the change in …
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affects women's wages and formality compared to men in the manufacturing sector. We compare outcomes in the garment sector and …. Our results indicate that FDI helps to increase wages and the probability of working in the formal sector, for both the …
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Do exporters and foreign-controlled establishments pay their workers higher wages than non-exporters and domestic … foreign-controlled plants do pay higher wages than non-exporters and domestic-controlled plants. These results hold even after … the impact of foreign control on wages is found to be widespread across industries and regions, that of exporting is not …
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evidence we do find is most likely due to factors unrelated to US-Mexico integration. While migration, trade, and FDI may … United States and Mexico over the last 25 years. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between these countries … during the period 1988 and 2011. We match survey and census data from Mexico and the United States to estimate the change in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016278
theoretical trade models and their ability to explain the differential impact of off-shoring on skill premiums (i.e. skilled …
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During the 1990s Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have experienced rapid increases in wage inequality between … FDI has contributed to the raise in earning inequality via a change in the skill composition of labor demand in the three … none of the countries considered FDI has worsened wage inequality by favoring labor demand shifts …
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investment (FDI) policy reform on employment and wages. The so-called negative investment list regulates FDI at the highly …
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