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Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but … empirically tests the effects of trade on wage inequality in a differentiated panel framework where countries are classified … pure “trade”- effects, supporting the Heckscher-Ohlin predictions of the effects of trade on wage inequality once the …
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employment and wages in the United Kingdom. It finds that firms can benefit from services trade, through increased employment …, production and productivity. On average, workers’ wages are also positively impacted by increased services trade. The findings …Services trade has become increasingly important, yet its impact on employment has been understudied at present. This …
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Neoclassical trade theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased commercial integration. Rising … commercial integration and foreign direct investment followed the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement between the United … States and Mexico. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between Mexico and the United States between 1988 and …
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China's exports reduce wages in importing countries, but few studies have looked at competition in third party markets … from China are associated with a reduction of employment in Mexico's textile and apparel sectors. These effects are the …. We examine labor market outcomes in Mexico's apparel and textile sectors associated with U.S. apparel and textile imports …
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We study the impact of trade exposure in the job biographies, measured with daily accuracy, of 2.4 million workers in … labor market effects of trade. …
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We characterize the salient features of the distribution of earnings and earnings changes of formal workers in Mexico … information is inadequate to fully capture the evolution of inequality and the properties of earnings changes. We also study the … impact of transitions out of and back into formal employment on wages earned in the formal sector and the effect of early …
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We examine the impact of changes in local labor market concentration on two components of income inequality in Mexico … concentration on inequality are not sizeable, the impact on wages for skilled and unskilled workers is significant. …: local wage shares and labor income inequality. Combining data from the Economic Census and the Population and Housing …
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China's exports reduce wages in importing countries, but few studies have looked at competition in third party markets … from China are associated with a reduction of employment in Mexico's textile and apparel sectors. These effects are the …. We examine labor market outcomes in Mexico's apparel and textile sectors associated with U.S. apparel and textile imports …
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This study analyzes the effect of trade liberalization on wage inequality through industry wage premiums in Indonesia … trade liberalization, controlling for market concentration. The study finds a negative effect of import tariffs on industry … versa, industry wage premiums increased by more in sectors experiencing larger tariff cuts. This suggests that trade …
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