Download or read book Three Essays on International Trade and the Labor Market written by Arnaud Joye and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thèse. HEC. 2015

Download or read book Three Essays on International Trade and Labor Market Flexibility written by Shadrack Mwilaria and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on the Impact of International Trade on the German Labor Market written by Linda Borrs and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in International Trade and Finance written by Huancheng Du and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores the economic interactions and outcomes in the nexus of international trade and finance. The entire dissertation is divided into three chapters with each chapter addresses one specific economic problem that roots in the interaction of international trade and finance. In the first chapter, I attempt to draw theoretical implications on two particular questions. First, what is the trade liberalization effect on capital market outcomes? Second, how do trade liberalization and capital market conditions jointly affect labor market outcomes such as income inequality? The objective of this chapter is to integrate both labor market frictions and capital market imperfection into one coherent theoretical framework and study the important interactions of trade liberalization and financial market development, as well as their joint impacts on aggregate income inequality. In the second chapter, I aim to provide both theoretical foundation and empirical evidence in partially explaining country authorities' decisions on financial policies. In the third chapter, [w]e provide a novel way of extracting country-level fundamental news from the international trade network. Specifically, we show that sovereign CDS returns provide value-relevant information that slowly propagates through credit markets reflecting underreaction on a global scale.

Download or read book Essays on International Trade and the Labor Market written by Thomas L. Hungerford and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays of International Trade in Differentiated Products written by Sangho Kim and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in International Trade written by Leo Karasik and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in International Trade Theory written by Eric O'Neill Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on International Trade written by Su Wang (Ph. D.) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis consists of three essays about international trade and wage inequality. Essay I characterizes optimal trade and FDI policies in a model with monopolistic competition and firm-level heterogeneity similar to Helpman et al. (2004). I find that both the optimal import tariffs and the optimal FDI subsidies discriminate against the more profitable foreign firms. This is because of the existence of a wedge between the private incentives of exporting and FDI firms, and the incentive of the representative agent. Essay II develops an elementary theory of global supply chains. It considers a world economy with an arbitrary number of countries, one factor of production, a continuum of intermediate goods, and one final good. Production of the final good is sequential and subject to mistakes. In the unique free trade equilibrium, countries with lower probabilities of making mistakes at all stages specialize in later stages of production. Using this simple theoretical framework, it offers a first look at how vertical specialization shapes the interdependence of nations. Essay III proposes a model that has as ingredients heterogeneity of workers and firms, complementarity between occupations within each firm and complementarity between workers and firms/occupations. The competitive equilibrium features positive assortative matching and leads to both within- and between- firm wage variations. Comparative static results are then derived to generate new insights about changes in these components of wage inequality.

Download or read book Three Essays on Trade and Development written by Tereso S. Tullao and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Labor and International Trade written by Daniel J. B. Mitchell and published by Los Angeles : Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California. This book was released on 1970 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in International Trade written by Leandro Freylejer and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis comprises three chapters: In Chapter I, I develop a general model to study the impact of labour mobility distortions on the gains from trade liberalization. The main feature of the model is that it combines comparative advantage forces with sectoral production misallocation. I use this framework to study the effect of labour market policies affecting the level of occupational mobility distortions on the gains from trade. I first show that differences in market structure across sectors lead to a misallocation of production. A planner is able to solve this misallocation by changing the composition of employment in the economy through changes in the level of labour market distortions. I use the model to study the impact of labour market distortions on the gains from trade from 1992 to 2007 in the US. I find that, relative to observed, optimal distortions lead to a 2.7% increase in the median cost of switching occupations and a doubling of welfare gains from trade. In Chapter II, I examine whether trade liberalization decreases investment misallocation in India. I provide evidence that, independently of firm heterogeneity, exporters earn more revenue from the extensive margin of production. Also, I show that this difference between exporters and non-exporters is increasing in the degree of external financing needs of the sector in which firms operate. This finding suggests that an increase in trade liberalization has the additional effect of increasing the efficiency of the allocation of investment in new product varieties from less-productive non-exporters to more-productive exporters. In Chapter III, I propose a model to explain deviations from the source-destination hierarchy prediction in models of trade with heterogeneous firms. I first show that firms do not follow a pecking order of foreign market entry. To explain these deviations, I show a two-period, partial equilibrium model with asymmetric information in product appeal. Firms know the appeal of their products but consumers are unaware of it. After consuming in the first period, consumers observe a noisy signal and update their expectations. Given the updating process, I show that there is an imperfect sorting of firms into markets.

Download or read book Three Essays on Trade Tasks and Technology written by Eric C. Carlson and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, economists have become increasingly concerned with the economic effects of automation. Robots and artificial intelligence have become fixtures of modern production, transforming the landscape of labor markets and reshaping patterns of international trade. This dissertation explores the economic changes brought about by these new technologies.The first essay provides a theoretical framework for understanding how automation in industrialized countries in the global North affects trade with developing countries in the global South. I show that automation can lead trading partners to change the mix of products they export and import. For example, as the stock of automatable capital increases in the global North, rich countries reshore production of traditionally labor-intensive goods. I also show that, in the context of automation, trade restrictions aimed at protecting labor-intensive industries can backfire. This is because trade restrictions protect domestic industries from foreign competition but do not protect domestic workers from competition with machines. Reducing the scale of production through a reduction in the size of the market exacerbates worker-machine competition which reduces the economic welfare of low-skilled workers.The second essay offers empirical support for the reshoring hypothesis. Using an exposure model, I partition the US into disjoint local labor markets which each differ in terms of exposure to automation. Using demographic data from the Census and American Community Survey, data on occupation characteristics from O*NET, and export data from the Census, I find that local labor markets that were historically more exposed to automation experienced larger increases in export growth relative to their otherwise comparable counterparts with lower levels of automation exposure. While this relationship is economically and statistically significant for horizontal trade movements between the US and other rich countries, the effect is largest for vertical trade between the US and lower-middle income countries like China. This suggests that automation has changed traditional patterns of comparative advantage between economies in the global North and those in the global South.The last essay looks at the effect of automation on the gender wage gap. As in the second essay, the unit of analysis is the local labor market. Using labor market data from the Census and automation data from O*NET, I find suggestive evidence that automation has reduced the wage gap between men and women. However, this effect is primarily relegated to the market for skilled labor. I find that the reduction in the pay differentials by gender is concentrated among workers with college degrees and find little change in the gender wage gap among workers without college degrees.

Download or read book Three Essays on International Trade and Productivity written by Siwook Lee and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on International Trade and Labor Market written by Alessandro Ruggieri and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on International Trade and Economic Development written by Li Zhou and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is composed of three self-contained chapters on international trade and economic development, with a special focus on the involvement of the government or public-funded sectors. The first chapter investigates international trade of higher education, specifically its impact on native students and native workers in the exporting country. Theoretically, I show that, in a general equilibrium model with non-profit publicly-subsidized higher education providers (HEPs) that care about both education quality and the enrollment of native students, serving foreign students may improve natives' access to higher education, which eventually benefits all native workers. Empirically, I find that, during the period 2001 to 2007, the enrollment of one more foreign student in an Australian university leads to the enrollment of around 0.75 more native students in this university. The impact is identified using an instrumental variable, generated from the interaction between demand for Australian higher education from different countries during the sample period and student networks these countries had in different Australian HEPs during 1989 to 1994. The second chapter studies commercial development in the presence of economic agglomeration of commercial goods and services, a result of consumers' love of varieties and transportation costs associated with commercial consumption. I show that a low-income community may be under-served with commercial goods and services because a developer cannot capture all the profits of a commercial project. A block grant to a developer can solve the market failure and generate a total profit bigger than the grant. Employment tax abatements alone are much less effective and much more costly. The third chapter examines the long-run impact of trade in higher education. In an overlapping generation (OG) model with a higher education sector composed of non-profit research institutions and for-profit teaching institutions, I show that importing teaching services benefits low-ability individuals by increased number of research workers in production, and that it may also benefit high-ability individuals by providing better training to skilled workers to complement research workers.

Download or read book Three Essays on International Trade in China written by Songhua Lin and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: