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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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trade and FDI are found to have significant impact on the upsurge of labour productivity growth in BRICS, where the …
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We investigate the impact of the emergence of China as a global competitor on the trade performance of Central, Eastern … trade links, applying highly disaggregated data at the 6 digit HS level over the period 1995 - 2010. We show that the most … shares and comparative advantage. We show that the number of trade links at the product level where both regions are active …
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played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
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rising concerns over reshoring, our findings suggest that robots have yet promoted trade in intermediate inputs. …
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entrants and returnees from non-employment. We then investigate if rising trade with China and Eastern Europe causally affected …
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affect labour markets in the EU, namely i) trade, ii) foreign direct investment, and iii) migration. A main conclusion of the … study is that trade and capital movements are very unlikely to lead to an equalisation of factor prices. Thus, strong …
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This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up...
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of natural selection are made weaker because trade allows people to specialize in those activities where they are strong …, and to offset their weaknesses by purchasing adequate goods on the market. Absent trade, people must allocate their time … alleles at all locations. Under trade, there exist long-run equilibria where less fit individuals are able to achieve the same …
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to describe the underlying forces linking trade with factor prices. I argue that missing regional and related inter …-sectoral labor mobility might be a potential factor preventing employees from taking advantage of trade liberalization. To …
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