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Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Adjustment in Botswana
McMillan, Margaret - 2019
We study the effects of domestic trade liberalization on labor markets in Botswana. South Africa is the dominant member … plausibly exogenous tariff reductions for the other customs union members, including Botswana. Using labor force surveys from … Botswana spanning a decade, we find that trade liberalization did not affect the relative size of industries in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862049
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Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Adjustment in Botswana
McMillan, Margaret S. - 2019
We study the effects of domestic trade liberalization on labor markets in Botswana. South Africa is the dominant member … plausibly exogenous tariff reductions for the other customs union members, including Botswana. Using labor force surveys from … Botswana spanning a decade, we find that trade liberalization did not affect the relative size of industries in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480271
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Trade and informality in the presence of labor market frictions and regulations
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Meghir, Costas - 2021
We build an equilibrium model of a small open economy with labor market frictions and imperfectly enforced regulations. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual simulations to understand how trade affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012498192
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International trade and unemployment : on the redistribution of trade gains when firms matter
De Pinto, Marco - 2013 - 1., 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683943
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International Trade and Unemployment : On the Redistribution of Trade Gains When Firms Matter
De Pinto, Marco - 2013
Motivation -- International trade and unemployment - the worker-selection effect -- Unemployment benefits as redistribution scheme for trade gains- a positive analysis -- An optimal redistribution scheme for trade gains.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016398
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Unfolding trade effect in two margins of informality : the Peruvian case
Cisneros-Acevedo, Camila - 2021
This paper studies the effect of an increase in import competition on informality along two margins. I consider the extensive margin, where workers are hired by unregistered employers and the intensive margin, where even though jobs are carried out in registered firms, employees are off the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533985
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Trade liberalisation and labour market adjustment in Botswana
McCaig, Brian; McMillan, Margaret Stokes - In: Journal of African economies 29 (2020) 3, pp. 236-270
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Three essays on international trade and development : Drie essays over internationale handel en ontwikkeling
Yenilmez, Taylan Eren - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011389204
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Trade and informality in the presence of labor market frictions and regulations
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Meghir, Costas - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607028
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Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou; … - 2021
We build an equilibrium model of a small open economy with labor market frictions and imperfectly enforced regulations. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual simulations to understand how trade affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233966