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Ever since the early 20th century, Argentina has failed to fully reap the benefits that integrating into the world economy can offer. With exports and imports only accounting for less than 30% of GDP, Argentina is significantly less integrated into the world economy than other emerging market...
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Despite the growing political priority given to making trade work for the majority in Latin America, a notable gap exists in the knowledge about the distributive impacts of trade integration. This study attempts to fill this gap: it surveys the most recent contributions to the mainstream trade...
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results show that trade integration under NAFTA promoted employment in Mexico for all demographic groups, especially for women …
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empirically tests the effects of trade on wage inequality in a differentiated panel framework where countries are classified … pure “trade”- effects, supporting the Heckscher-Ohlin predictions of the effects of trade on wage inequality once the …Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but …
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We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … inequality. After summarizing both design-based and quantitative work in this area, we propose directions for future work. Our …
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endogeneity of industry prices, then expenditures on computers becomes the most important cause of the increased wage inequality …
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industry. The more routine jobs are cut, the higher is the effect on wage inequality, especially on the dispersion of worker …-specific wages. Overall, trade explains up to 19% of the recent increase in wage inequality and slightly exceeds the technology …We use a large sample of German workers to analyze the effect of low-wage competition with China and Eastern Europe …
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same time, India has one of the widest gender wage gaps in the world and women are less likely to be employed in the formal … in domestic markets, and how it affects relative wages and formal employment between men and women. Using the Revealed … labour force surveys that contain information on sectoral employment and earnings. We find that sectors of comparative …
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Trade facilitation policies intend to simplify administrative processes and accelerate the handling of shipments across borders. Recent research shows that these policies have substantial effects on trade flows. In this chapter, we discuss what the existing evidence for trade implies for the...
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Trade facilitation policy focuses on accelerated and transparent shipment processing to reduce trade costs. A common measure to evaluate processing frictions is the time it takes to import. In this paper we translate import processing times to costs. Our theory considers that shipment processing...
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