Similar Search Results

Beaton, Kimberly; Cerra, Valerie; Hadzi-Vaskov, Metodij - 2022

This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the conditions and policies that help spread the gains from trade more evenly throughout the population. We exploit a large global firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306781

Still Attached? Are Social Safety Nets Working? Labor Force Participation in European Regions

Hilgenstock, Benjamin - 2018

The paper examines the evolution and drivers of labor force participation in European regions, focusing on the effects of trade and technology. As in the United States, rural regions within European countries saw more pronounced declines (or smaller increases) in participation than urban...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912499

Permanently Displaced? Increasingly Disconnected? Labor Force Participation in U.S. States and Metropolitan Areas

Hilgenstock, Benjamin - 2018

The United States stands out among advanced economies with marked declines in labor force participation. National averages furthermore conceal considerable within-country heterogeneity. This paper explores regional differences to shed light on drivers of participation rates at the state and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913938

The Globalization of Farmland : Theory and Empirical Evidence

Arezki, Rabah - 2018

This paper is the first to provide both theoretical and empirical evidence of farmlandglobalization whereby international investors directly acquire large tracts of agricultural landin other countries. A theoretical framework explains the geography of farmland acquisitionsas a function of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913915

Effects of Globalization on Labor's Share in National Income

Guscina, Anastasia - 2007

studies suggest that globalization and rapid technological progress (associated with accelerated information technology …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777940

Globalization and the New Normal

Candelon, Bertrand - 2018

to be determined by globalization. Relying on a non-linear dynamic panelrepresentation, it reconciles the earlier results … in the literature regarding the two oppositenarratives of the effects of globalization on output growth. Countries … growth following a financial crisis. The benefits, as well asvulnerabilities, accrue earlier in the globalization process for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918567

Global and Regional Spillovers to Pacific Island Countries

Sheridan, Niamh - 2012

Regional integration of Pacific Island countries (PICs) with Australia, New Zealand, and emerging Asia has increased over the last two decades. PICs have become more exposed to the region's business cycles, and spillovers from regional economies are more important for PICs than from advanced...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013102205

Fragmentation in Global Trade : Accounting for Commodities

Bolhuis, Marijn; Chen, Jiaqian; Kett, Benjamin - 2023

We construct a new database which covers production and trade in 136 primary commodities and 24 manufacturing and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358436

FDI, Global Value Chains, and Local Sourcing in Developing Countries

Amendolagine, Vito - 2019

The local sourcing of intermediate products is one the main channels for foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers. This paper investigates whether and how participation and positioning in the global value chains (GVCs) of host countries is associated to local sourcing by foreign investors....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864126

Bilateral Trade Imbalances

Cuñat, Alejandro; Zymek, Robert - 2022

If sectoral trade flows obey structural gravity, countries' bilateral trade imbalances are the result of macro trade imbalances, “triangular trade”, or pairwise asymmetric trade barriers. Using data for 40 major economies and the Rest of the World, we show that large and pervasive...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082958