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The number of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements has surged in recent years. In order to benefit from preferential tariff rates,firms must apply and comply with rules of origin requirements. This is costly and explains why preference utilization rates (PUR) are far below 100 percent. In...
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skill premium and increasing inequality. We develop a measure for reshoring activity at the macro-level and, using data from … the first cross-country evidence that reshoring is positively associated with wages and employment for high-skilled labor …
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The impact of robots on employment and trade is a highly discussed topic in the academic and public debates … advantage. We provide evidence on the effects of robots on worldwide employment, including emerging economies. To instrument the …. Robots turn out to have a significantly negative impact on worldwide employment. While it is small in developed countries …
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to what extend wage differentials across European countries are explained by differences in education, actual experience … and health. The human capital literature suggests an important role for these variables in explaining wage patterns …
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We examine whether income and unemployment risks are compensated by individual wages. Using a portfolio approach we show that the marginal income risk effect on wages is always positive whereas the marginal unemployment risk effect crucially depends on the income risk. The interaction effect...
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Why are trade agreements regional? I address this question in a model of oligopoly featuring product variety. Tariffs have the effect of manipulating a country's terms of trade and shifting profits towards the domestic market at the expense of foreign trade partners. Countries endogenously form...
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We develop a theory of economic disintegration that features both endogenously formed tax and trade policies. We show very generally that the economic disintegration of a country from an economic union leads to a deeper integration of international trade institutions. Moreover, we set up a...
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This paper sets up a model of trade, in which two countries with differing levels of technology specialize on the production of subsets of the global value chain. In the open economy equilibrium, the technologically backward country exports intermediates in exchange for imports of a homogeneous...
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The European Neighborhood Policy (ENP), launched in 2004, is a unified European Union (EU) policy framework towards the EU neighboring (ENP) countries. The objective of the ENP is to strengthen the prosperity, stability and security of the (enlarged) EU countries and the ENP countries. Even...
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effects of trade integration with China on the employment margin. We complement our findings with results on regional wage … employment by 3.99 percentage points, whereas imports increased manufacturing employment by 2.33 percentage points. We find no … growth, inequality, industry churning and population shifts. Using data at the worker level, we show that workers specialized …
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