Trade Liberalisation and Employment Effects in Ukraine
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This paper addresses the effects of trade liberalisation on job flows. It studies the case of Ukraine where the sudden opening up of the economy to trade can be viewed as a quasi-natural experiment. We use disaggregated data on manufacturing industries and customs data on trade flows to account for shifting trade patterns after the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) trade regime. We provide, for the first time, evidence on job flows at the three-digit sector level in Ukrainian manufacturing and show that these flows are predominantly driven by idiosyncratic factors within industries. However, we also establish that trade openness does affect job flows differently across different trading areas. We find that while trade with Commonwealth of Independent States decreases job destruction, trade with the European Union increases excess reallocation mainly through job creation. Comparative Economic Studies (2008) 50, 318–340. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ces.8100250Download Info
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- A. Christev & O. Kupets & H. Lehmann, 2005. "Trade Liberalization and Employment Effects in Ukraine," Working Papers 552, Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Universita' di Bologna.
- Christev, Atanas & Kupets, Olga & Lehmann, Hartmut, 2005. "Trade Liberalization and Employment Effects in Ukraine," IZA Discussion Papers 1826, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
- Atanas Christev & Olga Kupets & Hartmut Lehmann, 2005. "Trade Liberalisation and Employment Effects in Ukraine," CERT Discussion Papers 0506, Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, Heriot Watt University.
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution
- F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
- J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
- P23 - Economic Systems - - Socialist Systems and Transition Economies - - - Factor and Product Markets; Industry Studies; Population
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