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Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers Using the Current Population Surveys

Harrison, Ann E.; McMillan, Margaret Mcmillan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We link industry-level data on trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from the Current Population Surveys from 1984 to 2002. We find that occupational exposure to globalization is associated with significant wage effects, while industry exposure has no significant impact. We...

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International Welfare and Employment Linkages Arising from Minimum Wages

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter H.; Markusen, James R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

employment expansion, an effect quite different from the source of gains from trade in the conventional approach. Second, we show …

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The Long and Short (of) Quality Ladders

Khandelwal, Amit - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

impact of low-wage competition on U.S. manufacturing employment and output. Markets characterized by relatively shorter … quality ladders are associated with larger employment and output declines resulting from low-wage competition. …

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The Role of Globalization in the Within-Industry Shift Away from Unskilled Workers in France

Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

share of unskilled workers in French manufacturing employment for the 1977-1985 period and for 25% of the decline in the …

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Information and Globalization: Wage Co-Movements, Labor Demand Elasticity, and Conventional Trade Liberalization

Trindade, Vitor; Rauch, James E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

We model home country familiarity with business opportunities in a foreign country as a parameter in a matching process between domestic and foreign firms. We show that as familiarity increases the effect of relative national labor supplies on relative national wages declines, the elasticity of...

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Conditional Policies in General Equilibrium

Krishna, Kala - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Obtaining lower generalized system of preferences (GSP) tariffs requires meeting costly Rules of Origin (ROOs). Growing coffee in the shade is more costly, but yields a price premium. This paper analyzes the effects of such restrictions in a general equilibrium setting and shows that such...

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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...

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Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics: Evidence From 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Data

Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

-equalizing migration. Instead, we find steadily growing effects of local shocks on regional formal sector wages and employment for 20 years … shift out of the formal tradable sector and into the formal nontradable sector. Non-employment strongly increases in harder …-hit regions in the medium run, but in the longer run, non-employed workers eventually find re-employment in the informal sector …

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Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium: A Local Labor Markets Approach

Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We develop a specific-factors model of regional economies that includes two types of workers, skilled and unskilled. The model delivers a simple equation relating trade-induced local shocks to changes in local skill premia. We apply the methodology to Brazil's early 1990s trade liberalization...

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Preparing to Export

Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Molina, Danielken - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Exporters differ considerably in terms of export-market participation over time and employment size. But this marked …

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