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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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This paper examines the effects of antidumping (AD) investigations on the employment of firms in investigated countries … adjusting their employment practices. Moreover, exporting firms were also found to be likely to increase their investment in …
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Services trade has become increasingly important, yet its impact on employment has been understudied at present. This … employment and wages in the United Kingdom. It finds that firms can benefit from services trade, through increased employment … suggest that services imports enhance female wages more than those of males, thereby contributing to narrow the gender wage …
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This paper provides evidence of the links between Global Value Chains (GVCs) and labour market outcomes, focusing on developing economies. The literature generally indicates that firms with international linkages—which we use here as a proxy for GVC involvement—tend to employ more workers,...
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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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reduction in trade policy uncertainty on employment using the 1990–2010 micro-level Chinese census data. Our empirical strategy … larger increase in employment. In particular, this positive employment effect is driven by non-Hukou (individuals without a … prefectures facing large reduction in tariff uncertainty experienced employment decline in agriculture and employment expansion in …
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The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age … and we show that higher minimum wage can raise aggregate employment. Expansion in the non-traded sector following a wage …
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dimension of employment. By exploiting rich micro-level data on Ethiopian workers, we evaluate the effect of the Ethiopian trade … reforms on the changes and composition of employment, adopting as unit of analysis Ethiopian districts. We find that districts … more exposed to trade liberalization experienced reductions in their employment levels, especially in female employment. We …
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findings from the literature on how productivity, innovation, and employment were impacted by the Great Liberalizationa period … employment effects. The results reinforce some of the key findings of the earlier literature, notably the positive … employment point to a relatively small negative shock, not unlike that of the early 1990s, that was centered on low-skilled labor …
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labor force participation and employment after a period of around two years. Our results are robust to a variety of … measures of trade protection and different time periods. Moreover, we find evidence that employment flows across sectors …
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