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China's WTO accession and income inequality in European regions : external pressure and internal adjustments
Kvedaras, Virmantas; Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor - 2020
Exports from China have surged substantially since its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. We … investigate how this expansion affected income inequality within European regions by separating the trade pressure experienced in … increase of inequality that is concentrated mostly in the lower part of regional income distributions. We determine a …
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Offshoring tasks, yet creating jobs?
Kohler, Wilhelm; Wrona, Jens - 2011
The policy debate views offshoring as job destruction. Theoretical models of offshoring mostly assume full employment. We develop a model of task trade that allows for equilibrium unemployment. In this model, there are two margins of adjustment. At the extensive margin, moving tasks offshore...
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Os efeitos da globalização nos salários e o caso do Brasil
Arbache, Jorge Saba - In: Economia 1 (2000) 1, pp. 59-92
This article survey the theoretical and empirical literature on globalization and wage distribution for developed and developing countries, with special on the Brazilian experience. At the end we present an agenda for future research for Brazil.
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Five essays on international trade, factor flows, and the gains from globalization
Heiland, Inga - 2017
This volume was prepared by Inga Heiland while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It comprises five chapters addressing one or more aspects of international trade and...
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Low-wage import competition, inflationary pressure, and industry dynamics in Europe
Auer, Raphael A.; Degen, Kathrin; Fischer, Andreas M. - 2011
What is the impact of import competition from low-wage countries (LWCs) on inflationary pressure in Europe? This paper examines whether labor-intensive exports from emerging Europe, Asia, and other global regions have a uniform impact on producer prices in Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, and the...
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The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021
The emergence of the Asian tiger countries and the participation of the ex-communist countries in world trade has reduced the equilibrium price of labor in western Europe and elsewhere. However, the actual price of labor hardly reacts, because the welfare state's minimum replacement incomes are...
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Revisiting global imbalances : a comparative analysis of income and consumption inequality
Sheng, Li; Zhang, Zhaoyong - In: Economics & politics 34 (2022) 2, pp. 382-390
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The Chinese alternative
Nuti, Domenico Mario - In: Acta oeconomica : periodical of the Hungarian Academy … 69 (2019), pp. 31-47
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Labour market impacts of the China shock: why the tide of globalisation did not lift all boats
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2024
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Globalization and Imperfect Labor Market Sorting
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2011
evidence that openness improves the matching between workers and firms in industries with greater comparative advantage. This … improve the efficiency of the matching process in the labor market. These results remain unchanged after adding controls for … results are also robust to alternative measures of the degree of matching, openness, or the trade status of an industry …
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