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Cheap Imports and the Loss of U.S. Manufacturing Jobs
Cooke, Abigail - 2016
-proportions-inspired work on offshoring and heterogeneous firms in trade, we build industry-level measures of import competition. Combining … Manufactures, and transaction-level trade data, we find that rising import competition from China and other developing economies …
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Plant Exit and U.S. Imports from Low-Wage Countries
Cooke, Abigail - 2016
examine how low-wage country import competition in the U.S. influences the probability of manufacturing establishment closure …. These data are linked to measures of import competition built from individual trade transactions. Controlling for a variety … of plant and firm covariates, we show that low-wage import competition has played a significant role in manufacturing …
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Outsourcing and skill-specific employment in a small economy : Austria and the fall of the iron curtain
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - 2000
We present a model, in which a small industrialised economy outsources part of its production into a small foreign country which is well endowed with low-skilled labour. We analyse under which conditions sinking trade costs stimulate outsourcing activities, thereby increasing the wage dispersion...
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The Effect of Bilateral Labor Agreements on Trade
Paraschiv, Mihai; Maximova, Anna - 2021
The period following the end of World War II is marked by higher degrees of international cooperation aimed at facilitating economic integration among nations. As part of these efforts, national governments adopted policies to remove/reduce barriers that hindered the exchange of goods and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238115
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Five essays on international trade, factor flows, and the gains from globalization
Heiland, Inga - 2017
This volume was prepared by Inga Heiland while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It comprises five chapters addressing one or more aspects of international trade and...
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Outsourcing and skill-specific employment in a small economy : Austria and the fall of the Iron Curtain
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001530335
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Five essays on international trade, factor flows and the gains from globalization
Heiland, Inga - 2017
Trade Theory" (NQTT). ... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622853
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010395778
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … Faktorausstattung zweier Länder basiert. Das zweite Kapitel liefert eine Theorie zu Offshoring unter Imitationsrisiko. Diese Theorie …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742945
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Cenários para a redução dos custos de comércio no Mercosul: Efeitos sobre o comércio regional e mercado de trabalho brasileiro
Carneiro, Flávio Lyrio - 2021
We estimate the effects of reductions in trade costs between the four original members of Souther Common Market (Mercado Común del Sur - Mercosur) on regional trade and on the Brazilian labor market, using the model developed by Caliendo, Dvorkin e Parro (2019), which features elements such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012802825