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Gonzales, José Luis Moraga; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2001

We study the procompetitive effects of trade policies against a foreign oligopoly in a model of vertical product differentiation. We show that a uniform tariff policy like the Most Favored Nation (MFN) clause is always welfare superior to free trade because of a pure rent-extraction effect....

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Import liberalization as export destruction? : evidence from the United States

Breinlich, Holger; Leromain, Elsa; Novy, Dennis; … - 2022

How does import protection affect export performance? In trade models with scale economies, import liberalization can … reduce industry-level exports by cutting domestic production. We show that this export destruction mechanism reduced US … export growth following the permanent normalization of trade relations with China (PNTR). But there was also an offsetting …

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Globalisation and social spending

De Grauwe, Paul; Polan, Magdalena - 2003

We provide evidence indicating that countries with well-developed social security systems do not necessarily face a trade-off between social spending and competitiveness. On average, countries that spend a lot on social needs score well in the competitiveness league. We investigate the...

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Globalisation, competitive governments, and constitutional choice in Europe

Breton, Albert; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2002

The traditional school of economic policy analysis predicts that globalisation will give rise to predatory competition between the governments of the European nation states. The consequence is anticipated to be a marked reduction in, if not the destruction of, the benevolent Welfare State. The...

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Workers beneath the floodgates : the impact of low-wage import competition and worker's adjustment

Utar, Hâle - 2016

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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Globalization, fertility and marital behavior in a lowest-low fertility setting

Giuntella, Osea; Rotunno, Lorenzo; Stella, Luca - 2022

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on …

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Do China and Russia undermine US sanctions? : evidence from DiD and event study estimation

Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2022

panel difference-in-differences estimations and an event study design. Motivated by the claim that China and Russia … purposefully undermine US sanction efforts, we test whether target countries' trade with China and Russia increases under US trade … sanctions. We find no evidence for systematic sanction busting. Russia does not change its trade patterns with sanctioned …

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Determinants of global value chain participation : cross-country evidence

Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Kee, Hiau Looi; Winkler, Deborah - 2020

The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...

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Globalization, wage polarization, and the unstable great ratio

Cozzi, Guido; Impullitti, Giammario - 2014

The US labour market has experienced a remarkable polarization in the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, recent empirical work has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the US faced a fast technological catch-up as European...

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The hidden cost of globalization : import competition and mental distress

Colantone, Italo; Crinò, Rosario; Ogliari, Laura - 2015

We study the effect of import competition on workers' mental distress. To this purpose, we source information on the mental health of British workers from the British Household Panel Survey, and combine it with measures of import competition in more than 100 industries over 2001-2007. We find an...

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