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to describe the underlying forces linking trade with factor prices. I argue that missing regional and related inter …-sectoral labor mobility might be a potential factor preventing employees from taking advantage of trade liberalization. To …
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Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but … also throughout the developing world. This stylized fact is contrary to the predictions of classical trade theory that in … empirically tests the effects of trade on wage inequality in a differentiated panel framework where countries are classified …
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Despite the growing political priority given to making trade work for the majority in Latin America, a notable gap … exists in the knowledge about the distributive impacts of trade integration. This study attempts to fill this gap: it surveys … the most recent contributions to the mainstream trade economics literature, assesses their relevance for Latin America and …
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In the trade-technology-wage debate, the effects of the various forms of technical progress on relative factor prices …, which allows for any discrete number of sectors and countries integrated via trade flows. Technologies are country- and …
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international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have …
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The EU and the US have started negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) which …
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played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
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It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
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This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A novel theoretical mechanism, based on sorting of heterogeneous workers into occupations with task dependent offshoring cost, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to...
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. Whereas trade does not affect the firm-internal assignment of workers to tasks in a setting with fully flexible wages, it … consequences for firm-level productivity, if low-skilled wages are fixed by a minimum wage. In this case, trade leads to higher per …
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