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This paper investigates the impact of a 4% Hicks-neutral technical progress in heavy manufacturing in the United States and its trans-border spillover via intermediates. A three-region, six-traded-commodity computable general equilibrium model is numerically simulated to show that differentials...
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The paper discusses the links between skill requirements in the labour market and alternative trade patterns using a … would widen should the pattern of trade growth follow the current trend; however, an enhanced demand of commodities would … interaction of trends in trade and accumulation of skills, and thus on the role of the current policy of development of human …
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The relationship between trade and wages has been subject to intense scrutiny in the academic literature with no clear … and trade using the approach of Feenstra and Hanson to calculate mandated wage changes for our dataset. We find that … occupation wage is smaller for large trade partners. Finally, we discuss the potential role of NTMs in influencing the wage and …
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This paper examines the relationship between wages and levels of trade and FDI openness in twenty-nine sectors of the … Chilean economy. Over the last four decades, this country almost fully liberalized its trade and foreign direct investment … analysis, we divide 29 sectors into three groups of high, medium and low levels of trade and foreign direct investment …
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This paper presents one of the few empirical estimates of the impact of globalization, here represented by trade flows …
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We analyse the consequences of trade integration in Europe (1995-2005) detecting how the labor costs in partner …
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unemployment as they generate comparative advantages, but there are two main differences with Davis. With North-North trade …
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This paper introduces indicators about the division of labour to measure and interpret recent trends in employment in the Netherlands. We show that changes in the division of labour occur at three different levels: the level of the individual worker, the level of the industry and the spatial...
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Over the last decade, German multinationals created about two million jobs abroad with increasing foreign direct investment (FDI). While there are many reasons for firms to go multinational and probably just as many for Germany's high unemployment, this paper aims to investigate the relationship...
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It has been more than 50 years since the establishment of the first modern special economic zones. During this time, SEZs have been credited with underpinning the dramatic export-oriented growth of China and other East Asian countries. While they remain a controversial instrument, policy makers...
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