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Enhanced Intergenerational Occupational Mobility Through Trade Expansion : Evidence from Vietnam

Mitra, Devashish; Pham, Hoang; Ural Marchand, Beyza P. - 2022

Using eight rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) spanning 16 years and exploiting the US-Vietnam … occupational mobility in Vietnam employing a difference-in-differences research design. Our analysis suggests that the BTA has led …. Overall, the BTA shock accounts for 36% of the overall increase in mobility for both genders. Our results control for Vietnam …

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Manufacturing Employment and Exchange Rates in the Portuguese Economy : The Role of Openness, Technology and Labour Market Rigidity

Alexandre, Fernando - 2010

In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity in the determination … of the effect of the exchange rate on employment in Portugal. We develop an index that allows us to measure labour market … flexibility at the sector level. This index shows that labour market flexibility has been increasing in all manufacturing sectors …

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The Impact of Immigration on International Trade : A Meta-Analysis

Gen, Murat - 2011

Since the early 1990s many empirical studies have been conducted on the impact of international migration on international trade, predominantly from the host country perspective. Because most studies have adopted broadly the same specification, namely a log-linear gravity model of export and...

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Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods

Feler, Leo - 2016

We analyze the impact of trade-induced income shocks on the size of local government, and the provision of public services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing import competition from China experience relative declines in housing prices and business...

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Hit by the Silk Road : How Wage Coordination in Europe Mitigates the China Shock

Barth, Erling - 2020

Coordination in collective wage setting can constrain potential monopoly gains to unions in non-traded-goods industries. Countries with national wage coordination can thus stabilize overall employment against fluctuations and shocks in the world economy. We test this theory by exploring...

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Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector

Verhoogen, Eric - 2021

This paper proposes a new mechanism linking trade and wage inequality in developing countries - the quality-upgrading mechanism - and investigates its empirical implications in panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants. In a model with heterogeneous plants and quality-differentiated goods, only...

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Gender-Segmented Labor Markets and Trade Shocks

Goes, Carlos; López Acevedo, Gladys; Robertson, Raymond - 2023

This paper focuses on how gender segmentation in labor markets shapes the local effects of international trade. We first develop a theoretical framework that embeds trade and gender-segmented labor markets to show that foreign demand shocks may either increase or decrease the female-to-male...

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Household Responses to Trade Shocks

Irastorza-Fadrique, Aitor; Levell, Peter; Parey, Matthias - 2023

against lost household earnings by increasing labour supply. We find that both own and partner responses to the shock vary … significantly by gender. Men in households exposed to import competition respond by increasing labour force participation at older … increase labour supply if their male partners were initially employed in exposed industries. In general, self …

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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter?Micro-Level Wage Effects of InternationalOutsourcing in Three European Countries

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger; Munch, Jakob Roland - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark... …

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Globalization and Employment: Imported Skill BiasedTechnological Change in Developing Countries

Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namelythe relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-basedemployment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs)...

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