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The openness to international trade and capital movements of industrialized countries has increased substantially …. Overall, the empirical findings do not indicate that international trade and capital mobility raise income differences in …
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heterogeneous economy, we show how different regional rates of technical progress due to trade and FDI interact with constraints to … unskilled labor mobility. As favored regions benefit more from trade, their growing demand for skills drains skilled workers …
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Vietnam's development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the introduction of its doi moi (renovation) economic reform programme in 1986. The core of Vietnam's economic strategy has been rapid integration into the world economy, with a...
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Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with industry level information on industries? outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome the potential endogeneity bias as well as other...
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This paper provides a literature review on the labor market outcome of international trade and outsourcing trends in …. International trade and outsourcing are examined not to be the determinant force of labour market movements. It tends to add to …
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played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
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-North intermediate goods trade framework. International product market integration leads to redistribution of market shares from 'weak … restrictions which prevent the economy from reaching a first best allocation. The positive welfare effects of opening to trade are … integration. -- employment protection ; firing margin ; trade in intermediate goods ; labor market turnover ; revenue risk …
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This paper analyzes the labor market effects of offshoring in a high-wage home country and how these effects crucially depend on (1) job complexity and (2) the characteristics of the destination country. It thereby links several sources: rich administrative data on individuals and plants in the...
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attitudes towards globalization barriers (trade and immigration) and how important these attitudes are in how people vote. In … line with the existing results in the literature, we find that more educated and richer voters support freer trade and more … immigration. We also find that conservative voters in Sweden are more likely to prefer freer trade but higher immigration barriers …
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emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower …-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …
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