Domestic innovations and technology imports play important roles in boosting relative demand for skilled labor force. These factors are in turn influenced by domestic R&D investments and international trade. Using a translog cost function, this paper studies the effect of technology imports and other factors including output level and physical capital stock on the shares of skilled labor force ...

This paper evaluates the hypothesis that during the 2008-2009 collapse in international trade, imports of higher quality goods experienced larger reductions compared to low-quality imports, using data on U.S. imports disaggregated by HS-10 product category and source country. We find little, if any, robust econometric evidence in support of this hypothesis. JEL Classifications: F41, F42

in this study, the impact of internal r&d; expenditure, technology imports and interaction effects between human capital and technology imports on value added of iranian large industries are investigated over the period of 1994-2008. for this purpose, an endogenous growth model is used in which production is a function of labor, capital stock, human capital, internal r&d; expenditure, technolog...

This paper investigates the effects of U.S. AD actions on DCs. It first considers administrative actions by the U.S. Department of Commerce, which decides AD margins for countries. It then considers decision making by the U.S. International Trade Commission, which determines injury to domestic industry. The econometric results show that USDOC actions lead to significantly higher AD margins for ...

Abstract The EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, which entered into force in 2015, is an example of so-called “second-generation” regional trade agreements. Using the gravity equation and drawing on a novel dataset manufacturing goods (Monteiro World Organization, Geneva, 2020), I explore heterogeneity effects this agreement across time (anticipation phasing-in/delayed adjustment), country pai...

Imports of manufactured goods from China to Australia grew more than eleven-fold in real US dollar terms between 1991 and 2006. This study uses differences industry structure regions identify the impact that growth on labour market outcomes Australia. Overall, Chinese imports is estimated have reduced ratio manufacturing employment population by 1.6 percentage points, 221,000 workers. Adjustmen...

New BEA paper on vertical goods, which in turn are inputs direct investment, allowing specialization trade to final consumption goods. All firms to offshore while keeping Manufacturing trade and verti­ three types of goods may be production within the firms. cal specialization trade, which traded but face transportation Trade among affiliated firms can be defined as trade in goods costs and tar...

Does trade and investment liberalisation increase the growth in sales of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs)? Here, for the first time to our knowledge, we test this hypothesis using a unique data source on SSB-specific trade flows. We test whether lower tariffs effectively increase imports of SSBs, and whether a higher level of imports increase sales of SSBs. Cross-national fixed effects models w...

We investigate how the division of aggregate income into per capita income and population affects the margins of imports. In the first part, we use data on imports of 123 countries to document a positive relationship between per capita income and both the extensive and quality margin of imports, for a given level of aggregate GDP. These relations hold at various levels of disaggregation. While ...