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Mandarin, a high level of education, and higher-level skills increase the wages of workers after trade liberalization …
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We develop a simple framework to show the effects of trade cost reduction on unionized wage, employment and domestic welfare when a domestic firm strategically chooses the amount of formal in-house production and subcontracting to the informal sector. We show that a lower trade cost increases...
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two stages. In the first stage, individual wages are regressed on worker characteristics, job and firm attributes …
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I analyze the impact of a low-wage trade shock on manufacturing workers in a high-wage country, Denmark, and how they adjust to the shock over a decade across all potential adjustment margins, in the labor market and outside. My research illustrates the importance of industry-specific human...
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Using employee-employer matched data for the period 1999 to 2010, I analyze the impact of a low-wage trade shock on manufacturing workers in a high-wage country, Denmark, and how they adjust to the shock over a decade. To derive causal effects I exploit the dismantling of import quotas on...
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This paper reviews the effects of trade liberalisation on wages in developing countries, and presents new evidence for … Brazil. Wages fell substantially in the traded sector after trade liberalisation, consistent with there being reduced rents … college education. Within the traded sector, the impact of increasing openness on wages was insignificant for those in the top …
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This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage … causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes employment but employment does not cause wages. There is significant …
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This paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model of trade between two advanced countries in which both innovation and skill acquisition rates are endogenously determined. The model offers a North-North (as opposed to a North-South) trade explanation for increasing relative wage...
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This paper analyzes the effects of trade and labor market liberalization on wages and worker productivity/effort in a … domestic unionized firm with firm-union bargaining over wages and effort. It is shown that both types of liberalization will …
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The paper assesses the impacts of trade liberalization on macroeconomic variables and labor market indicators for the case of Brazil. The motivation is based on earlier debate on the role of trade liberalization in shaping out labor market outcomes in the well known Hecksher-Ohlin and...
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