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Export and labor market outcomes : a supply chain perspective : evidence from Vietnam

Kokas, Deeksha; López 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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Labour taxes and international trade : the role of domestic labour value added

Adarov, Amat; Holzner, Mario; Jovanović, Branimir; … - 2021

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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The impact of trade and technology on skills in Viet Nam

Poole, Jennifer P.; Santos-Paulino, Amelia U.; … - 2017

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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The effect of export market access on labor market power : firm-level evidence from Vietnam

Hoang, Trang; Mitra, Devashish; Pham, Hoang - 2024

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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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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Temperature, labor reallocation, and industrial production: evidence from India

Colmer, Jonathan - 2021

To what degree can labor reallocation mitigate the economic consequences of weather-driven agricultural productivity shocks? I estimate that temperature-driven reductions in the demand for agricultural labor in India are associated with increases in non-agricultural employment. This suggests...

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Labour, trade, and wage inequality : some new results

Pant, Manoj; Huria, Sugandha - In: International Trade, Resource Mobility and Adjustments …, (pp. 87-106). 2024

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The United States-China trade war : timeline, consequences, and prospects for the US economy ; an analysis based on the textile industry

Stawasz‑Grabowska, Ewa; Wieloch, Justyna - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 26 (2023) 1, pp. 147-170

In this paper, we investigate the scale of the drop in American imports after it imposed punitive tariffs on Chinese goods. Our analysis spans the whole period of Donald Trump's presidency (January 2017 - January 2021). In contrast to existing studies, which are mainly devoted to the impact of...

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Trade and the firm-internal allocation of workers to tasks

Egger, Hartmut; Koch, Michael - 2013

This paper looks inside the firm and investigates how trade alters the matching of worker-specific abilities and task-specific skill requirements. The outcome of this matching depends on how firms organize their recruitment process and how much they invest into the screening of applicants. In...

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Outsourcing potentials and international tradability of jobs : evidence from German micro-level data

Brändle, Tobias; Koch, Andreas - 2013

We analyze the offshorability of jobs using the German Qualifications and Career Survey. The paper differentiates between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of organizational and spatial relocation derived from the...

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