Trade, Poverty and Employment: The Social Consequences of Integration with China

This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty, income distribution, welfare and employment. The case of Argentina, in particular, is investigated. To this end, partial equilibrium techniques are combined with micro econometric methodologies employing data from household surveys to examine the likely effects of an FTA with China on poverty and income distribution. We find that the FTA would result in a small reduction in poverty as well as an improvement in the income distribution. Highly disaggregated data at the industry level is used for the first time to estimate labor demand-output and wage elasticities in order to estimate the effects of an agreement with China on sectoral and aggregate employment rates. According to this, trade with the PRC did not have a significant effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization like the nineties.China, Import Competition, Trade and Labor Market Interactions, Employment, Income Distribution, Poverty

Trade with China and India and Manufacturing Labour Demand in Argentina

For many in Latin America, the increasing participation of China and India in international markets is seen as a looming shadow of two ?mighty giants? on the region?s manufacturing sector. Are they really mighty giants when it comes to their impact on manufacturing employment? This paper attempts to answer this question by estimating the effects of trade with China and India on Argentina?s industrial employment. We use a dynamic econometric model and industry level data to estimate the effects of trade with China and India on the level of employment in Argentina?s manufacturing sector. Results suggest that trade with China and India only had a small negative effect on industrial employment, even during the swift trade liberalization of the 1990s.China, Latin America, trade, import competition, trade and labour market interactions, employment

The impact of trade with China and India on Argentina's manufacturing employment

For many in Latin America, the increasing participation of China and India in international markets is seen as a looming shadow of two"mighty giants"on the region's manufacturing sector. Are they really mighty giants when it comes to their impact on manufacturing employment? The authors attempt to answer this question by estimating the effects of trade with China and India on Argentina's industrial employment. They use a dynamic econometric model and industry level data to estimate the effects of trade with China and India on the level of employment in Argentina's manufacturing sector. Results suggest that trade with China and India only had a small negative effect on industrial employment, even during the swift trade liberalization of the 1990s.Labor Markets,Free Trade,Economic Theory&Research,Water and Industry,Trade Policy

Determinantes de la Inserción Internacional Provincial

What are the determinants of the export performance of Argentina’s provinces? What factors explain how much, what, at what price and where Argentina’s provinces export? What is the role of factor endowments such capital, labor and natural resources each provinces is endowed? What is the role of public policies like the provision of infrastructure and fiscal behavior at the moment of explain the pattern of trade of the provinces? What is the impact of foreign direct investment on the export performance of each province? In this research we aim to provide some preliminary and general answers to these questions.Exports, Argentina, Provinces

The impact of trade with China and India on Argentina’s manufacturing employment

For many in Latin America, the increasing participation of China and India in international markets is seen as a looming shadow of two ‘mighty giants’ on the region’s manufacturing sector. Are they really mighty giants when it comes to their impact on manufacturing employment? This paper attempts to answer this question estimating the effects of trade with China and India on Argentina’s industrial employment. We use a dynamic econometric model and industry level data to estimate the effects of trade with China and India on the level of employment in Argentina’s manufacturing sector. Results suggest that trade with China and India only had a small negative effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization like the nineties

The impact of trade with China and India on Argentina’s manufacturing employment

For many in Latin America, the increasing participation of China and India in international markets is seen as a looming shadow of two ‘mighty giants’ on the region’s manufacturing sector. Are they really mighty giants when it comes to their impact on manufacturing employment? This paper attempts to answer this question estimating the effects of trade with China and India on Argentina’s industrial employment. We use a dynamic econometric model and industry level data to estimate the effects of trade with China and India on the level of employment in Argentina’s manufacturing sector. Results suggest that trade with China and India only had a small negative effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization like the nineties

Conectándonos con las Ciencias y las Matemáticas

Presentamos el análisis de experiencias del año de ejecución de un PEU dirigido a favorecer la efectiva utilización pedagógica de las netbooks entregadas a escuelas secundarias de Quilmes, por el Programa Conectar.igualdad, al que conceptualizamos parte de una política educativa inclusiva. Consideramos que la incorporación de TICs en educación requiere, para ser eficaz pedagógica y socialmente, la construcción de un ámbito de reflexión entre docentes de Secundaria y Universidad sobre qué y cómo enseñar y evaluar y sobre el diseño de estrategias para la enseñanza de contenidos disciplinares, así como sobre la renovación de los valores ético-políticos de la institución escolar. PEUs realizados anteriormente en UNQ señalan estos indicadores de la necesidad de cambios en la forma de enseñanza de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas: a)altos niveles de desaprobación de estas asignaturas, y b)escasa apropiación de sus contenidos conceptuales, procedimentales y actitudinales. Viendo el interés que despiertan las TICs incorporadas por Conectar.igualdad a las Escuelas y su posibilidad para acceder a distintas fuentes de información y para la creación y publicación de contenidos pretendemos aprovecharlas para implementar un paradigma de co-construcción social del aprendizaje. El objetivo de este PEU es contribuir a que estudiantes y docentes secundarios desarrollen su capacidad de producir conocimientos, facilitando la adquisición individual de saberes y competencias disciplinares, utilizando herramientas informáticas como Geogebra, WxMaxima, Modellus, ChemLab, ACDLabs y Avogadro, para la producción grupal o la adaptación de aplicaciones interactivas y simulaciones por parte de docentes y alumnos secundarios sobre los contenidos, en las aulas, con la asistencia de alumnos universitarios voluntarios, como la estrategia didáctica privilegiada. El trabajo creativo con ese software y herramientas Web 2.0 estimula el aprendizaje de nuevos conceptos, la necesidad de utilizar el lenguaje científico y la interacción social entre los alumnos favoreciendo el proceso de modelización, núcleo de la enseñanza de las ciencias. La participación de estudiantes voluntarios de la UNQ está pensada como “andamiaje” vigotskyano, incorporándolos al accionar solidario. Los docentes facilitan la incorporación de estrategias de aprendizaje y de gestión del conocimiento, tan necesarias fuera del mundo escolar. El paradigma de aprendizaje colaborativo, basado en la participación de todos los miembros de la comunidad educativa, la centralidad del aprendizaje y las expectativas positivas hacia el alumnado, enmarca la actividad docente disciplinar en la formación integral de los estudiantes, preparándolos para participar activamente de políticas públicas orientadas a la transformación y mejora de la sociedad

Policy and performance in customs: Evaluating the trade facilitation agreement

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the DOI in this record.This paper links cross‐country variation in trade facilitation policies to prominent indicators of national customs and logistics performance. We test the hypotheses that the policy data explain variation in the performance indicators, independent of other country characteristics that are plausibly exogenous to changes in trade facilitation policies. We use a LASSO procedure to choose among the many potential explanatory variables in the model. In general we find that country characteristics related to geography, income, and the general quality of governance better explain cross‐country variation in customs and logistics performance than do the measures of trade facilitation policy.Government of SwedenGovernment of NorwayGovernment of the United Kingdo