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The impact of international trade on wages

Feenstra, Robert C. (ed.) - 2000

an increasing share of available income, while low-skilled workers have seen an absolute decline in real wages. How and … escalation of high-skill wages. This collection brings together innovative new ideas and data sources in order to provide more … on U.S. wages. This timely volume offers a thorough appraisal of the wage distribution predicament, examining the …

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Instrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms : Unpacking the Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters

Dippel, Christian - 2018

This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new framework for mediation analysis where one instrumental variable is sufficient to identify three causal effects. Using German data from 1987–2009, we find that import exposure...

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Instrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms : Unpacking the Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters

Dippel, Christian - 2017

Instrumental variables (IV) are a common means to identify treatment effects. But standard IV methods do not allow us to unpack the complex treatment effects that arise when a treatment and its outcome together cause a second outcome of interest. For example, IV methods have been used to show...

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