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This paper examines the relation between the skill premium and international trade given differences in the relative supply of skills across countries while allowing the South (developing countries) to develop its appropriate technology. Typical assumptions put forward in the literature state...
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The German economy exhibits rising service and declining manufacturing employment. But this decline is much sharper in …. They are not driven by manufacturing workers who smoothly switch to services. The observed shifts are entirely due to young … those labor flows. Exploiting variation across industries and regions, we find that globalization did not speed up the …
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manufacturing trade, have gone further and that this is likely one of the key determinants of better economic performance of China … still persists which likely adds to the hurdles faced by the Indian manufacturing sector. India has revealed a comparative …
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We estimate productivities at the sector level for 72 countries and 5 decades, and examine how they evolve over time in both developed and developing countries. In both country groups, comparative advantage has become weaker: productivity grew systematically faster in sectors that were initially...
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We estimate productivities at the sector level for 72 countries and 5 decades, and examine how they evolve over time in both developed and developing countries. In both country groups, comparative advantage has become weaker: productivity grew systematically faster in sectors that were initially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023960
We estimate productivities at the sector level for 72 countries and 5 decades, and examine how they evolve over time in both developed and developing countries. In both country groups, comparative advantage has become weaker: productivity grew systematically faster in sectors that were initially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043955
an additional source of demand and growth. The central objective of this paper is to use vector autoregression (VAR … developing Asian countries. The study's results from a three-variable VAR model indicate that PRC's imports have a significant … positive effect on the GDP of regional countries. However, the study's results from a four-variable VAR model indicate that the …
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employment, particularly in manufacturing and among non-college workers. Labor markets susceptible to computerization due to … specialization in routine task-intensive activities experience significant occupational polarization within manufacturing and non-manufacturing … appears to shift from automation of production activities in manufacturing towards computerization of information …
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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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This paper is concerned about addressing a question that has become critical in international trade, during the past three decades: "What factors explain the worldwide increase in skill premiums following international trade integration and increasingly globalized economies"? I propose a new...
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