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The role of trade and offshoring in the determination of relative wages and child labour
Cigno, Alessandro; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sabani, Laura - 2017
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises the skill premium and reduces child labour in developing countries where the adult labour force is sufficiently well educated to attract production activities from abroad that...
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Trade, foreign investment, and wage inequality in developing countries : exposure to foreign trade raises the skill premium in countries with a large stock of educated workers and...
Cigno, Alessandro - 2015
incentive to invest in their children’s education. The incentive will be ineffective, however, if parents cannot borrow for … their child's education because of underdeveloped credit markets or because they are too poor to finance the investment from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433631
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Trade, wages and skill accumulation in the emerging giants
Harris, Richard G.; Robertson, Peter E. - In: Journal of international economics 89 (2013) 2, pp. 407-421
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Education and labor market policies in an offshoring global economy
Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - In: Nordic economic policy review (2013) 1, pp. 75-98
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The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Relative Wages and Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - 2017
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises the skill premium and reduces child labour in developing countries where the adult labour force is sufficiently well educated to attract production activities from abroad that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951557
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The role of trade and offshoring in the determination of child labour
Cigno, Alessandro; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sabani, Laura - 2015
-Samuelson effect), and thus on the incentive for parents to invest in their children's education, associated with international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488142
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Skill acquisition and the dynamics of trade-induced inequality
Danziger, Eliav - In: Journal of international economics 107 (2017), pp. 60-74
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Trade, skill-biased technical change and wages in Mexican manufacturing
Caselli, Mauro - In: Applied economics 46 (2014) 1/3, pp. 336-348
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Trade reforms and industry wage premium : evidence from Argentina
Falcone, Guillermo; Galeano, Luciana - 2017
This paper studies the impact of Argentina trade liberalization during the nineties on the industry wage premium structure. We find that accounting for unobserved time invariant industry characteristics is crucial. When we do not control for industry fixed effects, we find that workers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011691326
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Offshoring, endogenous skill decision, and labor market outcomes
Agnese, Pablo; Hromcová, Jana - 2016
We discuss the effects of low-skill offshoring on the endogenous schooling decision of workers along with the potential …-deteriorating effects of offshoring. As a result, we aim at restoring welfare by increasing the opportunity cost of staying low-skill. In … offshoring that befall those in the lowest end of the skill ladder. …
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