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How Do Households Adjust to Trade Liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO Accession

Dai, Mi; Huang, Wei; Zhang, Yifan - 2018

regional variation in the exposure to tariff cuts resulting from WTO entry. Regions that initially specialized in industries …

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Enhanced Intergenerational Occupational Mobility through Trade Expansion: Evidence from Vietnam

Mitra, Devashish; Pham, Hoang; Ural Marchand, Beyza - 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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How Do Immigrants Promote Exports? Networks, Knowledge, Diversity.

Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2022

How do immigrants promote exports? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework allowing to identify and disentangle the main mechanisms put forth in the literature: the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs, and the productivity shifts arising from...

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Gender-Segmented Labor Markets and Trade Shocks

Goes, Carlos; Lopez-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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Export and Labor Market Outcomes: A Supply Chain Perspective - Evidence from Vietnam

Kokas, Deeksha; Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys; Vu, Ha - 2023

? To analyze this question, we study the case of Vietnam. Vietnam exported a total of $356B, making it the number 18 … exporter in the world in 2021. Recent studies show provinces in Vietnam with greater exposure to tariff reductions observe … exports propagated through domestic production linkages in Vietnam between 2010 and 2019. We find that direct exposure to …

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Local Labor Markets Dynamics and Export Shocks: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

Góes, Carlos; Segnana, Juan; Robertson, Raymond; … - 2023

We study the dynamic effects of export exposure over local labor markets in Indonesia. We develop an empirical strategy to instrument exposure to exports using exposure to foreign demand shocks and validate it showing that the labor market responses are consistent with those expected from demand...

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Trade and unemployment: what do the data say?

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Prat, Julien; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2009

This paper documents a robust empirical regularity: in the long-run, higher trade openness is causally associated to a lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using: (i) panel data from 20 OECD countries, (ii) cross-sectional data on a larger set of countries. The time...

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Employment and exchange rates: the role of openness and technology

Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - 2009

labour market developments. According to our estimations, whereas employment in high-technology sectors seems to be …

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Employment, exchange rates and labour market rigidity

Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - 2010

There is increasing evidence that the interaction between shocks and labour market institutions is crucial to … understanding the dynamics of employment. In this paper, we show that the inclusion of labour adjustment costs in a trade model … affects the impact of exchange rate movements on employment. We also explore how labour market rigidities interact with the …

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Manufacturing employment and exchange rates in the Portuguese economy: The role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity

Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - 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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