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-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …
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the non-tariff measure, but more so because of their unequal access to opportunities such as gender inequality in … secondary schooling the heavy burden of reproduction actives which makes them less available for gainful employment. However … employment in the agricultural sector. Thus, proactive measures aimed at infrastructure investment that reduces women care …
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adverse - effects, understanding the difficulties in using it to manage employment is important for economic policy. …
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Using a rich dataset on over 110,000 workers from nine European countries and the USA we study the wage response to … industry dependence on foreign value added. We estimate a Mincerian wage model augmented with an input-output interindustry … tasks experience (little) wage decline due to major dependency of their industries on foreign inputs. Workers from former EU …
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This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty eradication using microeconomic and macroeconomic mechanisms and the effects of trade and trade policy on consumer prices, producer prices, and wages. As these mechanisms affect the real...
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This paper makes the case for the need to "upgrade" current analytical tools used for trade policy analysis and complement them with more detailed firm-level data. Such an upgrade should be based on the latest intellectual advancements in trade theories and the latest firm-level trade statistics...
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This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...
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As globalization gathered pace over the last four decades, workers’ rights advocates championed the use of trade rules and market access as leverage to encourage respect for labor standards, at home and abroad. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the strategies and politics of the actors...
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