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Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy
Cosar, Kerem; Guner, Nezih; Tybout, James R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The...
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Endogenous labor market institutions in an open economy
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 23 (2012) C, pp. 30-45
The paper sets up a two-country asymmetric trade model with heterogeneous firms, search frictions and endogenous labor market institutions. Countries are linked by trade in goods and non-cooperatively set unemployment benefits to maximize national welfare. We show that more open and smaller...
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Cheap Imports and the Loss of U.S. Manufacturing Jobs
Cooke, Abigail; Kemeny, Thomas; Rigby, David - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2013
This paper examines the role of international trade, and specifically imports from low-wage countries, in determining patterns of job loss in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2007. Motivated by intuitions from factor-proportions-inspired work on offshoring and heterogeneous firms...
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Financial development and inequality in the global economy
von Ehrlich-Treuenstätt, Maximilian; Seidel, Tobias - 2016
development for inequality in the global economy. If there are many small firms, better access to external funds reduces wage … inequality and unemployment. In contrast, if there are many high-productive firms (those that export), financial development may … have opposite effects - especially if trade costs are low. In sum, the implications of financial development for inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011583289
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Financial development and inequality in the global economy
Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2016
development for inequality in the global economy. If there are many small firms, better access to external funds reduces wage … inequality and unemployment. In contrast, if there are many high-productive firms (those that export), financial development may … have opposite effects - especially if trade costs are low. In sum, the implications of financial development for inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430585
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The rise of the East and the Far East: German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2013
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and “the East” – China and Eastern Europe – in the period 1988 – 2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed administrative data, we exploit the cross-regional variation in initial industry structures and...
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Labor Clauses in Regional Trade Agreements and Effects on Labor Conditions: An Empirical Analysis
Kamata, Isao - Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University - 2015
his paper attempts to perform an empirical analysis of the effects of “labor clauses” provided in bilateral or plurilateral trade agreements (or regional trade agreements: RTAs) on working conditions that laborers in the RTA signatory countries actually face, using macro-level data for a...
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Trade Expansion and Employment Generation: How Mercantilist Does China Have to Be?
Jiang, Xiao - Department of Economics, New School for Social Research - 2011
We conduct an input-output analysis of China’s employment changes due to changes in trade structure on sectoral level. We find that between 2002 and 2007 China generated about 71 million jobs due to trade expansion. We also estimate the additional amount of trade that would be needed if China...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196547
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Labor Unions and the Scale and Scope of Multi-Product Firms
Egger, Hartmut; Koch, Michael - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium model with multi-product firms and union wage setting in a subset of industries. By claiming a wage premium, labor unions enforce a decline in firm scale and scope and thus dampen industrial output, with negative feedback effects on the...
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International trade and income distribution : reconsidering the evidence.
Bensidoun, Isabelle; Jean, Sébastien; Sztulman, Aude - Université Paris-Dauphine - 2011
income inequality in poor countries, but reduces it in rich countries (the reverse is true for the capital content of trade …
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