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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP8430
	DP8430 How Wages and Employment Adjust to Trade Liberalization: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Austria
	Federico Trionfetti; Marius Brülhart; Céline Carrère
发表日期	2011-06-13
出版年	2011
语种	英语
摘要	We study the response of regional employment and nominal wages to trade liberalization, exploiting the natural experiment provided by the opening of Central and Eastern European markets after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1990. Using data for Austrian municipalities, we examine differential pre- and post-1990 wage and employment growth rates between regions bordering the formerly communist economies and interior regions. If the 'border regions' are defined narrowly, within a band of less than 50 kilometers, we can identify statistically significant liberalization effects on both employment and wages. While wages responded earlier than employment, the employment effect over the entire adjustment period is estimated to be around three times as large as the wage effect. The implied slope of the regional labor supply curve can be replicated in an economic geography model that features obstacles to labor migration due to immobile housing and to heterogeneous locational preferences.
主题	International Trade and Regional Economics
关键词	Natural experiment Regional labor supply Spatial adjustment Trade liberalization
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp8430
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537293
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Federico Trionfetti,Marius Brülhart,Céline Carrère. DP8430 How Wages and Employment Adjust to Trade Liberalization: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Austria. 2011.