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We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" - China and Eastern Europe … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall … ; employment ; China ; Eastern Europe ; Germany …
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role that human capital plays in this relationship using a rich, worker-level, longitudinal data set from Germany spanning …
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manufacturing decline in Germany. It even retained those jobs in the economy. …
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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 effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
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Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
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associated with Eastern enlargement drawing on a time series model of immigration to Germany, which allows to estimate the long … impact on wages and employment even in the two most affected countries, Austria and Germany. Although we are dealing with … relatively small numbers, they may have an impact on wages and employment in some neighbouring regions of Austria and Germany …
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This paper contributes to the debate on the effects of trade versus technological change on wage differentials. We propose an explanation of the stylized facts which is based on interactions between openness and technological change because of labor market institutions and government...
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In this paper we investigate whether the effects of terrorism in one country spillover to affect trade in neighboring nations. Using a sample of more than 160 countries from 1976 to 2014, we report robust evidence that terrorist attacks in a nation's contiguous neighbors significantly reduce...
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