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Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but … 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 …
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We study the impact of trade exposure in the job biographies, measured with daily accuracy, of 2.4 million workers in … labor market effects of trade. …
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We characterize the salient features of the distribution of earnings and earnings changes of formal workers in Mexico … information is inadequate to fully capture the evolution of inequality and the properties of earnings changes. We also study the … impact of transitions out of and back into formal employment on wages earned in the formal sector and the effect of early …
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This study analyzes the effect of trade liberalization on wage inequality through industry wage premiums in Indonesia … trade liberalization, controlling for market concentration. The study finds a negative effect of import tariffs on industry … versa, industry wage premiums increased by more in sectors experiencing larger tariff cuts. This suggests that trade …
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-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 … decompose wages into firm and worker components. We find that the rise of market access and competitiveness of the East has a …
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This paper addresses the impact of rising international trade exposure on individual earnings profiles in heterogeneous … to trade shocks. Rising import penetration reduces earnings within job spells, and it induces workers to leave the … market response to trade shocks: Import shocks trigger substantial "push effects", whereas the "pull effects" of export …
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We exploit rich worker-establishment data to trace the impact of rising international trade exposure in the job … market effects of trade …
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I introduce taste-based discrimination in a trade model with imperfect competition and provide an explanation for the … rents and with them the average gender wage gap in sectors that were sheltered from competition prior to trade … heterogeneous effects of international trade on the gender wage gap within sectors. Firms operate in an oligopoly where prejudiced …
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The rise in income inequality in developing countries after trade liberalization has been a puzzle for trade theory …, which predicts the opposite effect. The authors present a model with imported intermediate goods in which the relative wages …
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development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular … to what extent skill- biased technical change and trade liberalization share a major responsibility. The conclusion of …
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