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Are the wage gains from exports specific to exporting industries, or do they dissipate throughout the economy? In the … studies show the positive impact of apparel exports on female labor force participation in the formal labor market and a range … of household decisions. We extend this literature by estimating the relationship between apparel exports and the male …
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This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of … increase in exports of the female-intensive good, the male-female wage gap closes considerably throughout the country – not …
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imports and/or exports. To shed light on this issue, we employ a combination of large-N panel data analysis and comparative …
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between firm employment and exports. Our results show that tariffs have fallen and trade, as a share of GDP has increased … that increasing in employment from exports has occurred mainly in male, capital-intensive sectors. Labor-abundant countries …
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This paper examines the overall impact of exports while accounting for supply chain linkages on local labor market …
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This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
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the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is … subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively related. Using a matching approach to investigate the causal effect of … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany. …
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In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential market access program for the least developed sub-Saharan...
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This paper investigates the impact of import liberalization induced labor demand shocks on male and female employment in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, we relate prefecture-level employment by gender to the exposure to tariff reductions on locally...
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We show that the Brazilian trade liberalization in the early 1990s led to a permanent relative decline in the vote share of left-wing presidential candidates in the regions more affected by the tariff cuts. This happened even though the shock, implemented by a right-wing party, induced a...
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