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The Contribution of Trade to Wage Inequality: The Role of Skill, Gender, and Nationality
Klein, Michael W.; Moser, Christoph; Urban, Dieter M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
International trade has been cited as a source of widening wage inequality in industrial nations. Consistent with this claim, we find a significant export wage premium for high-skilled workers in German manufacturing and an export wage discount for lower skilled workers, using matched...
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US Trade and Wages: The Misleading Implications of Conventional Trade Theory
Edwards, Lawrence; Lawrence, Robert Zachary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Conventional trade theory, which combines the Heckscher-Ohlin theory and the Stolper-Samuelson theorem, implies that expanded trade between developed and developing countries will increase wage inequality in the developed countries. This theory is widely applied. It serves as the basis for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622358
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Old Europe ages: Reforms and Reform Backlashes
Ludwig, Alexander; Boersch-Supan, Axel H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
focuses on three large Continental European countries: France, Germany, and Italy. These countries have large pay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628320
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Trade-in-goods and trade-in-tasks: An Integrating Framework
Baldwin, Richard; robert-nicoud, frédéric - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
-way offshoring/trade-in-tasks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628412
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From Great Depression to Great Credit Crisis: Similarities, Differences and Lessons
Bénétrix, Agustín S.; Eichengreen, Barry; O'Rourke, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
The Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Credit Crisis of the 2000s had similar causes but elicited strikingly different policy responses. It may still be too early to assess the effectiveness of current policy responses, but it is possible to analyze monetary and fiscal policies in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628453
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Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization, and the Skill Premium
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We propose a theory that rising globalization and rising wage inequality are related because trade liberalization raises the demand facing highly competitive skill-intensive firms. In our model, only the lowest-cost firms participate in the global economy exactly along the lines of Melitz...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368123
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Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production: Evidence from US States 1950-1990
Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We find that over the period 1950-1990, US states absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395467
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Employment Protection Legislation and Plant-Level Productivity in India
Dougherty, Sean M.; Krishna, Kala; Robles, Verónica C. … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Using plant-level data from the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) for the fiscal years from 1998-99 through 2007-08, this study provides plant-level cross-state/time-series evidence of the impact of employment protection legislation (EPL) on total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity...
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The Wage Effects of Offshoring: Evidence from Danish Matched Worker-Firm Data
Hummels, David L.; Munch, Jakob Roland; Xiang, Chong; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We estimate how offshoring and exporting affect wages by skill type. Our data match the population of Danish workers to … countries. Our data reveal new stylized facts about offshoring activities at the firm level, and allow us to both condition our … identification on within-job-spell changes and construct instruments for offshoring and exporting that are time varying and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325514
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Ownership Characteristics, Real Exchange Rate Movements and Labor Market Adjustment in China
Whalley, John; Mao, Risheng - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper uses a firm level multi-industry data set covering 456 Chinese manufacturing sectors to assess the implications of Renminbi (RMB) real exchange rate appreciation for adjustments in employment and wage rates. We stress differences in both industry and firm characteristics within...
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