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international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have …
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There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household … economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant …
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Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how...
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strong though not definitive evidence of an ideological realignment in trade-exposed local labor markets that commences prior …, we find that trade exposed electoral districts simultaneously exhibit growing ideological polarization in some domains …-meaning expanding support for both strong-left and strong-right views-and pure rightward shifts in others. Specifically, trade …
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Unlike many countries, Egypt did not experience significant labor market improvements following trade liberalization … export expansion, this is not occurring at a large enough scale to be felt at the macro level. To seize the benefits of trade …
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. -- Stochastic dominance ; empirical likelihood ; Canada ; income distribution …
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are offered with findings from analyses for the US and Canada to enable assessment of the relative impacts of favorable …
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"This paper examines the determinants of the choice of field of study by university students using data from the Canadian National Graduate Survey. The sample of 18,708 graduates holding a Bachelor degree is interesting in itself knowing that these students completed their study and thus...
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We provide the first empirical application of a new approach proposed by Lee (2007) to estimate peer effects in a linear-in-means model. This approach allows to control for group-level unobservables and to solve the reflection problem. We investigate peer effects in student achievement in...
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