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trade restrictiveness indices for household consumption items and industry affiliations using both tariffs and the ad … cost of consumption for poorer households, while it is progressive through the earnings channel in urban areas and neutral …
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trade restrictiveness indices for household consumption items and industry affiliations using both tariffs and the ad … raises the cost of consumption for poorer households, while it is progressive through the earnings channel in urban areas and …
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the cheaper product is in their consumption basket. These welfare gains through consumption, on average, are found to be …
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Larger Indian firms selling inputs to other firms tend to have more customers, tend to be used more intensively by their customers, and tend to have larger customers. Motivated by these regularities, I propose a novel empirical model of trade featuring endogenous formation of input-output...
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We propose a representation of individual preferences with a subsistence requirement in consumption, and examine its … environmental services. We find that the Hicksian elasticity of substitution strictly monotonically increases with the consumption … of environmental services above the subsistence requirement, and approaches the standard CES value as consumption becomes …
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The practice of trade cost measurement faces several challenges related to data quality, methodology and theory; but the major issue is that of data scarcity. Due to these facts both domestic and asymmetric trade costs have been ignored despite being a feature of modern trade models. This paper...
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Globalization has radically changed the way in how goods and services are produced. The impact of globalization on production has been driven mainly by two determinants: In a first phase, a quick fall in transportation costs between countries and in a second, more recent phase, a drastic...
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reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always … knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … productivity, to a "Marxian" zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good …
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affects labor markets in sending countries, particularly the wages of workers who do not emigrate. Most studies find that … emigration increases wages in the sending country but only for non-emigrants with substitutable skills similar to those of … country loses many highly educated workers, the economy can become less productive altogether, leading to lower wages for …
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Udry (1996) uses household survey data and finds that the allocation of resources within households is Pareto inefficient, contradicting the main assumption of most collective models of intrahousehold bargaining. He finds that among plots planted with the same crop in the same year, within a...
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