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-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …
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the non-tariff measure, but more so because of their unequal access to opportunities such as gender inequality in … secondary schooling the heavy burden of reproduction actives which makes them less available for gainful employment. However … employment in the agricultural sector. Thus, proactive measures aimed at infrastructure investment that reduces women care …
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outcome variables – labour productivity, employment and wages. In a second step, an illustrative set of changes in trading … on sectoral employment, except for car and truck manufacturing, consistent with a high integration of the sector with …
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higher import and consumer prices, lower investment, and slower real wage and GDP growth. However, at the aggregate level …
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-country assessment of wage response to global production links within global value chains (GVCs) in the period 2005-2014. Unlike the …
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European integration, which culminated in the completion of the Single Market, the single currency and successive enlargements, is now faced with the question of strategic autonomy. Against this backdrop, the present paper has three objectives. First, it assesses the benefits of EU membership...
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Can anti-dumping tariffs increase employment? We compile data on all antidumping (AD) investigations in Brazil matching … it to firm-level administrative employment information. Using difference-in-differences, we find that, an AD tariff … decreases imports and increases employment in the protected sector. Moreover, downstream firms decrease employment, while …
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The TRIPs plus phenomenon (additional steps to strengthen the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) tends to be attributed to the regional and bilateral efforts of the United States. This paper suggests that such a perception is mistaken. The EU certainly seeks to...
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We use an empirical gravity equation approach to study how nonreciprocal trade preferences (NRTPs), enacted mainly through the Generalized System of Preferences, affect the exports of the beneficiary nations. In line with existing studies, the average trade effect stemming from nonreciprocal...
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