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changes. In particular, there has been a sharp downturn in poverty along with an upturn in social inequalities (albeit not as … sharp as in China). This makes the question of the distributional impact of the country’s WTO accession (January 2007) a … effects induced by WTO membership: job gains (especially industrial jobs), growth in real wages, reduction in gender …
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? 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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are not directly linked to trade, such as political institutions, sustainable development, labour standards or competition … policy. The European Union itself is caught up in this trend. It has thus undertaken to promote labour standards and decent … work in multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations over and above basic compliance with core labour standards. The aim …
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This paper revisits the relationship between labour taxation and international trade, focusing on the role of domestic … labour value added. Using sectoral data from 41 EU and OECD economies over the period 2005- 2014, we assess how labour taxes … affect exports and imports and how domestic labour value added shapes this relationship. We find that higher labour taxes …
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This paper revisits the relationship between labour taxation and international trade, focusing on the role of domestic … labour value added. Using sectoral data from 41 EU and OECD economies over the period 2005- 2014, we assess how labour taxes … affect exports and imports and how domestic labour value added shapes this relationship. We find that higher labour taxes …
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Market-oriented reforms, such as liberalizing trade and encouraging foreign direct investment, can generate large efficiency gains for a country. However, there is also concern that lower-skilled workers are increasingly being replaced by technology and that more globalized markets are harming...
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This paper examines the impact of an export market expansion created by the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA …) on competition among manufacturing firms in Vietnam's local labor markets. Using a nonparametric production function …
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Emerging and developing states are home to powerful corporations capable of deploying economic activities on a global scale. But such corporations have to date been largely overlooked in the field of business and human rights. Treatment of such corporations has typically been in the context of...
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antidumping (AD) laws amongst WTO members. Contrary to the regnant belief that this proliferation is driven mainly by retaliatory … motives, our model shows that adoption and use of AD laws involve a cooperative act amongst WTO members in an infinite horizon … game. The diffusion of AD laws need not result in a Prisonner.s dilemma. Instead we show that the AD agreement of the WTO …
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. We exploit the variation in exposure to competition from China, following its accession to the WTO in 2001, across …
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