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Labor Market Rigidities, Trade and Unemployment

Helpman, Elhanan; Itskhoki, Oleg - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We study a two-country two-sector model of international trade in which one sector produces homogeneous products while the other produces differentiated products. The differentiated-product industry has firm heterogeneity, monopolistic competition, search and matching in its labor market, and...

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Volatility, Labor Market Flexibility, and the Pattern of Comparative Advantage

Melitz, Marc J.; Cuñat, Alejandro - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper studies the link between volatility, labor market flexibility, and international trade. International differences in labor market regulations affect how firms can adjust to idiosyncratic shocks. These institutional differences interact with sector specific differences in volatility...

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A Note on the Empirical Implementation of the Lens Condition

Robertson, Raymond; Schott, Peter K.; Bernard, Andrew B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Deardorff [Journal of International Economics 36 (1994) 167-175] offers an intuitively appealing test for factor price equality (FPE). He demonstrates that FPE is impossible if the set (i.e., lens) of points defined by regional factor abundance vectors does not lie within the set of points...

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Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment: A Structural Empirical Approach

Artuc, Erhan; Chaudhuri, Shubham; McLaren, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

The welfare effects of trade shocks depend crucially on the nature and magnitude of the costs workers face in moving between sectors. The existing trade literature does not directly address this, assuming perfect mobility or complete immobility, or adopting reduced-form approaches to estimation....

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The Rybczynski Theorem, Factor-Price Equalization, and Immigration: Evidence from U.S. States

Hanson, Gordon; Slaughter, Matthew J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

Recent literature on the labor-market effects of U.S. immigration tends to find little correlation between regional immigrant inflows and changes in relative regional wages. In this paper we examine whether immigration, or endowment shocks more generally, altered U.S. regional output mixes as...

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Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics: Evidence From 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Data

Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We empirically study the dynamics of labor market adjustment following the Brazilian trade reform of the 1990s. We use variation in industry-specific tariff cuts interacted with initial regional industry mix to measure trade-induced local labor demand shocks, and then examine regional and...

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Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium: A Local Labor Markets Approach

Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We develop a specific-factors model of regional economies that includes two types of workers, skilled and unskilled. The model delivers a simple equation relating trade-induced local shocks to changes in local skill premia. We apply the methodology to Brazil's early 1990s trade liberalization...

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Goods Trade, Factor Mobility and Welfare

Redding, Stephen James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We develop a quantitative spatial model that incorporates a rich geography of trade and imperfect labor mobility between locations. We provide general results for the existence, uniqueness and comparative statics of the equilibrium. We show how the model can be used to undertake counterfactuals...

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Trade and Inequality: From Theory to Estimation

Helpman, Elhanan; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Redding, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

While neoclassical theory emphasizes the impact of trade on wage inequality between occupations and sectors, more recent theories of firm heterogeneity point to the impact of trade on wage dispersion within occupations and sectors. Using linked employer-employee data for Brazil, we show that...

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Why are American Workers getting Poorer? China, Trade and Offshoring

Harrison, Ann E.; McMillan, Margaret Mcmillan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

effects of globalization, with offshoring to low wage countries and imports both associated with wage declines for US workers … offshoring to China has also contributed to wage declines among US workers. However, the role of trade is quantitatively much … more important. We also explore the impact of trade and offshoring on labor force participation rates. While offshoring to …

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