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Increased job effort can raise productivity and income but put workers at increased risk of illness and injury. We … combine Danish data on individuals' health with Danish matched worker-firm data to understand how rising exports affect … individual workers' effort, injury, and illness. We find that when firm exports rise for exogenous reasons: 1. Workers work …
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This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that … studies the impact of trade on wages and worker training. Wages and training fell for workers employed in sectors where the … intermediate imports. This provides new direct evidence that, in the modern world of global value chains, it is changes in the cost …
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We provide evidence for the causal pro-trade effect of migrants and in doing so establish an important link between … during which time the US imposed a complete trade embargo on Vietnam. Following the lifting of trade restrictions in 1994, US … exports to Vietnam grew most in US States with larger Vietnamese populations, themselves the result of larger refugee inflows …
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on trade. The migrant elasticity of imports is larger than that of exports in about half the countries considered, but … distribution of immigration elasticities of imports and exports across 48 studies that yielded 300 observations. The results show … the publication bias and heterogeneity-corrected elasticity is slightly larger for exports than for imports …
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international trade volume and trade structure towards high-tech exports result in positive effects on China's regional productivity …International trade, as a major factor of openness, has made an increasingly significant contribution to economic … growth. Chinese international trade has experienced rapid expansion together with its dramatic economic growth which has made …
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. Interestingly, this positive impact of local service availability on imports especially applies to stand-alone firms that, unlike …
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trade have strong positive spillover effects on product and technology innovation by domestic firms in emerging markets. The …
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Earnings nonresponse in household surveys is widespread, yet there is limited knowledge of how nonresponse biases earnings measures. We examine the consequences of nonresponse on earnings gaps and inequality using Current Population Survey individual records linked to administrative earnings...
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This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It uses data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database and a quot;Realized Matchesquot; procedure to quantify expected levels of English skills in each of over 500...
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Although the practice of military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. Angrist (1990) showed that the Vietnam-era draft in the U.S. lowered the early-career wages of conscripts, a finding he attributed to...
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