Chris Heitzig
@heitzig.bsky.social
Economics PhD student at @ids.ac.uk (formerly development economics research at @brookings.edu). Thoughts are my own. Website: www.chrisheitzig.org
We observe highly distributional effects in India’s labour market, which we think is a form of ‘occupational restructuring’, whereby firms updated their employment needs, prioritizing some occupations over others.
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Labour Market Effects of India’s Termination from the United States’ GSP - Institute of Development Studies
This paper investigates the sudden 2019 termination by the United States Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) of trade with India as a quasi-natural experiment. Given the re-election of Donald Trum...
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February 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
We observe highly distributional effects in India’s labour market, which we think is a form of ‘occupational restructuring’, whereby firms updated their employment needs, prioritizing some occupations over others.
Read the full paper here: www.ids.ac.uk/publications...
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Read the full paper here: www.ids.ac.uk/publications...
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We find that India’s exports to the U.S. declined across many sectors, with transportation manufacturing hit particularly hard (a fall of more than 20%).
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February 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
We find that India’s exports to the U.S. declined across many sectors, with transportation manufacturing hit particularly hard (a fall of more than 20%).
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In our paper, we link detailed monthly trade data with monthly household-level data from India to estimate the distributional effects of the U.S. terminating India’s access to its Generalized System of Preferences (GSP).
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February 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
In our paper, we link detailed monthly trade data with monthly household-level data from India to estimate the distributional effects of the U.S. terminating India’s access to its Generalized System of Preferences (GSP).
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