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recessions tend to lead to falling trade and protectionism. The sensitivity of trade to global economic conditions is not simply …
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This paper focuses on the decomposition of observed increases in UK wage inequality since 1979 into the component factors of competition from low-wage imports and technological change. Building on recent work by Abrego and Whalley, it argues that the length of production run and degree of .xity...
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recessions tend to lead to falling trade and protectionism. The sensitivity of trade to global economic conditions is not simply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534481
Abstract Using a new set of measures of concentration of trade, I suggest that the opening up of trade to date has been … greatly exaggerated. At least judging on the basis of trade concentration, agriculture and service sectors should barely be … the global openness league table. Since there is a strong correlation between concentration of trade and poor economic …
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