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Does Internationalization Affect Union Bargaining Power? An Empirical Study for Five EU Countries

Dumont, Michel - 2010

In this paper, we assess the impact of international trade on union bargaining power in five EU countries, using a two-step estimation procedure. In the first step, we use firm-level data to estimate union bargaining power at sector level within a production function framework. We simultaneously...

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Specialization, gravity, and European trade in final goods

Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen - 2012

We suggest that bilateral gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of absolute supply-side country differences are misspecified. Building on Haveman and Hummels (2004), we develop and test an alternative specification rooted in incomplete specialization that views bilateral gravity...

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Factor content of intra-European trade flows

Zeddies, Götz - 2011

In recent decades, the international division of labor expanded rapidly in course of globalization. In this context, highly developed countries specialized on (human) capital intensively manufactured goods and increasingly sourced parts and components from lowwage countries. Since this should be...

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Trade and Inequality in Europe and the Us

Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2022

emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower … shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … a large growth of net imports from China (such as the UK and the US), than in countries that maintained relatively …

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Trade and labour market adjustment

Stone, Susan F.; Sourdin, Patricia; Legendre, Clarisse - 2013

While it is widely accepted that there are adjustment costs associated with the reallocation of resources in response to freer trade, in most models these costs are assumed to be very small. However, more recent evidence is casting doubt on this assumption. This paper develops a unique dataset...

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Long-term effect of international trade on the gender wage and educational gaps

Yamamura, Eiji - 2016

This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence...

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Decomposing the Effect of Trade on the Gender Wage Gap

Benguria, Felipe - 2017

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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Labor Specialization and the Impact of International Trade on the Skill Premium

Madanizadeh, Seyed Ali - 2017

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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International Trade and Labor Market Discrimination

Chisik, Richard - 2016

We embed a competitive search model with labor market discrimination, or nepotism, into a two-sector, two-country framework in order to analyze how labor market discrimination impacts the pattern of international trade and also how trade trade affects discrimination. Discrimination, or nepotism,...

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A rising tide? : the local incidence of the second wave of globalization

Gray, Rowena; Wright, Greg C. - 2022

We estimate the short- and long-run local labor market impacts of the large increase in U.S. imports and exports that occurred over the 1970s. We exploit the sequential opening of overseas shipping container ports over the period, which generated discontinuous changes in U.S. trade ows. We find...

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