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I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Public economics group. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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Tag Archives: Trade
Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics: Evidence From 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Data
From Rafael Dix-Carneiro and Brian Kovak: We empirically study the dynamics of labor market adjustment following the Brazilian trade reform of the 1990s. We use variation in industry-specific tariff cuts interacted with initial regional industry mix to measure trade-induced local labor … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Kovak, Local Labor Markets, Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Trade
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Beyond Ricardo: Assignment Models in International Trade
From Arnaud Costinot and Jonathan Vogel: International trade has experienced a Ricardian revival. In this article, we offer a user guide to assignment models that have contributed to this revival, which we will refer to as Ricardo-Roy (R-R) models. HT: Jonathan Dingel
Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s
From Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson, Brendan Price: Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable jump in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with … Continue reading
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Tagged Brendan Price, China, Daron Acemoglu, david autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson, labor demand, Regional Variation, Trade, Trade Flows
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Comparative Advantage and Optimal Trade Policy
From Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson, Jonathan Vogel, Iván Werning: The theory of comparative advantage is at the core of neoclassical trade theory. Yet we know little about its implications for how nations should conduct their trade policy. For example, should import sectors with weaker … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson, Ivan Werning, Jonathan Vogel, Taxes, Trade, trade policy
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The Impact of Regional and Sectoral Productivity Changes on the U.S. Economy
From Lorenzo Caliendo, Fernando Parro, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, and Pierre-Daniel Sarte: We study the impact of regional and sectoral productivity changes on the U.S. economy. To that end, we consider an environment that captures the effects of interregional and intersectoral trade in propagating … Continue reading
Innovation and Production in a Global Economy
From Costas Arkolakis, Natalia Ramondo, Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, and Stephen Yeaple: The process of globalization features increasing international specialization in innovation or production. To assess the welfare implications of this process, we develop a quantitative, multi-country general equilibrium model where firms can serve … Continue reading
Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets
A new paper from David Autor, David Dorn and Gorfon Hanson. ABSTRACT: We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising … Continue reading
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Tagged David Dorn, From David Autor, Gordon Hanson, inequality, Labor Markets, Local Labor Markets, technology, Trade, Wages
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