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The Response of the Informal Sector to Trade Liberalization
Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou; Pavcnik, Nina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
1980’s and 1990’s - Brazil and Colombia - we examine the response of the informal sector to liberalization. In Brazil, we … find no evidence of a relationship between trade policy and informality. In Colombia, we do find evidence of such a …
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Trade Reforms and Wage Inequality in Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio; Goldberg, Pinelopi; Pavcnik, Nina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia on the wage distribution …, changes in industry wages that hurt sectors with initially lower wages and a higher fraction of unskilled workers, and shifts … of the labour force towards the informal sector that typically pays lower wages and offers no benefits. Our results …
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Trade, Technology and Wage Inequality.
Hanson, G.H.; Harrison, A. - Graduate School of Business, Columbia University - 1995
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Why Legislators are Protectionists: The Role of Majoritarian Voting in Setting Tariffs
Willmann, Gerald - 2003
Based on the observation that industries are often geographically concentrated, this paper proposes a new political economy model of trade protection. We associate the sectors of a specific factors model with electoral districts populated by continua of heterogeneous voters who differ in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296223
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The sources of protectionist drift in representative democracies
Laussel, Didier; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2001
We analyze a two country-two good model of international trade in which citizens in each country differ by their specific factor endowments. The trade policy in each country is set by the politician who has been elected by the citizens in a previous stage. Due to a delegation effect citizens...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398023
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Why Legislators are Protectionists: the Role of Majoritarian Voting in Setting Tariffs
Willmann, Gerald - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2003
Based on the observation that industries are often geographically concentrated, this paper proposes a new political economy model of trade protection. We associate the sectors of a specific factors model with electoral districts populated by continua of heterogeneous voters who differ in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082848
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An Eclectic Negotiation Theory of Trade Policy Behaviour.
Garfiel, Sophus; Knudsen, Ulrik Vestergaard - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 1997
Economic theory and empirical studies consistently support the case for free trade. With such a point of departure, the difficulties concluding the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations and the widespread use of protectionist measures in general seem paradoxical. However, through the introduction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005543478
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A simple method to quantify the ex-ante effects of "deep" trade liberalization and "hard" trade protection
Larch, Mario; Tan, Shawn W.; Yotov, Yoto - 2021
We propose a simple and flexible econometric approach to quantify ex-ante the "deep" impact of trade liberalization and the "hard" effects of protection with the empirical structural gravity model. Specifically, we argue that the difference between the estimates of border indicator variables for...
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Transportation and trade interactions : a trade facilitation perspective
Carballo, Jerónimo; Schaur, Georg; Volpe Martincus, … - 2017 - This version: March 2017
Trade facilitation policies intend to simplify administrative processes and accelerate the handling of shipments across borders. Recent research shows that these policies have substantial effects on trade flows. In this chapter, we discuss what the existing evidence for trade implies for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625949
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Sustainable development impact of trade and investment liberalization in Asia and the Pacific
Narayanan, Badri; Duval, Yann; Kravchenko, Alexey; … - 2017
Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As...
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