FDI inflows and domestic firms: Adjustments to new export opportunities

B McCaig, N Pavcnik, WF Wong - 2022 - nber.org
We investigate a low-income country's long run employment response to new export
opportunities. The US–Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement reduced US import tariffs on …

Labour market impacts of the China shock: Why the tide of Globalisation did not lift all boats

D Dorn, P Levell - Labour Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
The 1990s and 2000s saw a dramatic expansion in global goods trade. China rapidly
emerged as the world's leading exporter while manufacturing employment in many high …

[PDF][PDF] Domino effects: Understanding sectoral reallocation and its wage implications

L Lorentzen - 2022 - economics.princeton.edu
This paper studies the impact of the collapse in the price of Brent Crude Oil in 2014 on
worker reallocation and earnings in Norway. Using Norwegian panel data, I document that …

To Find Relative Earnings Gains After the China Shock, Look Outside Manufacturing and Upstream

JR Pierce, PK Schott, C Tello-Trillo - 2024 - nber.org
We examine US workers' employment and earnings before and after trade liberalization with
China. Among workers initially employed in manufacturing, we find substantial and …

Trade and Structural Change: Focusing on the Specifics

A Greenland, J Lopresti - 2024 - nber.org
Using a newly digitized database encompassing the universe of tariff lines across five US
trade policy regimes between 1900 and 1940, we show that price dynamics combine with …

Distributional Impacts of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement

BK Kovak, PM Morrow - AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023 - aeaweb.org
We examine the effects of the 1988 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on
employment and earnings inequality among low-, medium-, and high-income Canadian …

Heterogenous impacts of trade liberalization on individual wages: Evidence from Thailand

S Sudsawasd, K Hayakawa - The Developing Economies, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study empirically examines how trade liberalization changes individuals' wages, with
evidence from Thailand. We primarily focus on the effect of Thailand's tariff reduction under …

[PDF][PDF] The GATT vs inflation: Tokyo drift

A Greenland, J Lake, J Lopresti - 2023 - cowles.yale.edu
Despite the negotiated tariff liberalization in the 1979 Tokyo GATT Round, the US aggregate
tariff rate drifted upwards over the following decade. In stark contrast, the aggregate tariff rate …

Impacts of trade liberalization in the least developed countries: evidence from Lao PDR

P Kyophilavong, K Hayakawa - The Developing Economies, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study empirically investigates the effects of tariff reductions in a least developed country
on its economy. Specifically, we focus on tariff reductions based on the ASEAN Free Trade …

Trade shocks and social mobility: The intergenerational effect of import competition in Brazil

A César, M Ciaschi, G Falcone… - ZEW-Centre for …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper investigates whether the impact of trade shocks on employment and wages
persists across generations. Using survey data with retrospective information on parental …