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The China Effect on the Productivity in the US and Other High-Income Countries
Lind, Daniel - 2021
, the growing use of intermediates imported from China has contributed to the productivity growth within the manufacturing … production processes of 22 high-income countries. Using China’s productivity as the exogenous variation, the main result – based … significant. With the preferred estimation, a one per cent increase in the use of intermediates imported from China does, on …
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Does Internationalization Affect Union Bargaining Power? An Empirical Study for Five EU Countries
Dumont, Michel - 2010
In this paper, we assess the impact of international trade on union bargaining power in five EU countries, using a two-step estimation procedure. In the first step, we use firm-level data to estimate union bargaining power at sector level within a production function framework. We simultaneously...
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Factor content of intra-European trade flows
Zeddies, Götz - 2011
In recent decades, the international division of labor expanded rapidly in course of globalization. In this context, highly developed countries specialized on (human) capital intensively manufactured goods and increasingly sourced parts and components from lowwage countries. Since this should be...
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Quantifying the extensive margin(s) of trade : the case of uneven European integration
Anderson, James E.; Yotov, Yoto - 2022
We propose a short-run theory of the extensive margins of trade, comprising the standard international extensive margin and a novel domestic extensive margin. The domestic extensive margin allows identification of globalization and specific policy effects not properly identified in previous...
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Long-term effect of international trade on the gender wage and educational gaps
Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence...
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Decomposing the Effect of Trade on the Gender Wage Gap
Benguria, Felipe - 2017
This paper utilizes regional variation in exposure to increased Chinese imports in Brazil to investigate the impact of trade on gender wage inequality. We find that rising imports reduced wages in local Brazilian labor markets, but that this wage reduction was entirely borne by male workers...
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The Pro-Trade Bias of Offshoring
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab; Chau, Nancy; … - 2021
Technological advance and improvements in communication technologies have facilitated the offshoring of jobs worldwide, where a typical scene following the supply chain involves developing countries importing finished products from developed countries that contain developing country labor...
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Importing political polarization? : the electoral consequences of rising trade exposure
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2020
to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …
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Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2021
to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314978
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International trade and collective bargaining outcomes : evidence from German employer-employee data
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, … - 2012
In theoretical trade models with variable markups and collective wage bargaining, export exposure may reduce the exporter wage premium. We test this prediction using linked German employer-employee data from 1996 to 2007. To separate the rent-sharing mechanism from assortative matching, we...
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