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Morocco's trade liberalization policies coincided with macroeconomic growth over the past two decades. The relationship between trade liberalization and individual-level labor-market outcomes, however, are not well understood. By combining three complementary approaches and modeling techniques,...
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indirectly affected by rising export demand. Furthermore, we examine potential impacts on specific worker groups, such as high …
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This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of … exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. We compare estimates of the …-run, general-equilibrium neoclassical trade theory. As in other studies, we find that the export shock was localized both in terms …
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-female wage gap surrounding an exogenous policy change in the European Union that corresponded to a discrete increase in apparel-export … increase in apparel export prices, consistent with trade theory, and that the change estimated with a cross-section IV approach … robust to incorporating input-output table data to account for the contributions of non-traded industries to export markets. …
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Are the labor market changes from exports specific to exporting industries, or do they dissipate throughout the economy? 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...
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We study the dynamic effects of export exposure over local labor markets in Indonesia. We develop an empirical strategy … responses are consistent with those expected from demand shocks in a spatial model. Export shocks unambiguously increase …-compositional effects, our estimates of district-level welfare suggest that export shocks induce an increase in welfare. …
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present a simplified general equilibrium model inspired by Melitz (2003) with two sectors: one able to export and one "reserve … export expansion, this is not occurring at a large enough scale to be felt at the macro level. To seize the benefits of trade …, Egypt requires deeper business environment reforms to incentivize large export, labor-intensive sector growth and integrate …
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