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Brian K. Kovak
Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
Publications - 47
Citations - 1493
Brian K. Kovak is an academic researcher from Carnegie Mellon University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Free trade & Labor demand. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 43 publications receiving 1153 citations. Previous affiliations of Brian K. Kovak include National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Regional Effects of Trade Reform: What Is the Correct Measure of Liberalization?
TL;DR: The authors developed a specific-factors model of regional economies that provides a theoretical foundation for this intuitively appealing empirical approach and also provides guidance on treatment of the nontraded sector.
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Trade Liberalization and Regional Dynamics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the evolution of trade liberalization's effects on Brazilian local labor markets and find that regions facing larger tariff cuts experienced prolonged declines in formal sector employment.
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Immigrants Equilibrate Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the Great Recession
Brian C. Cadena,Brian K. Kovak +1 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that low-skilled Mexican-born immigrants' location choices in the U.S. respond strongly to changes in local labor demand, and that this geographic elasticity helps equalize spatial differences in labor market outcomes for low- skilled native workers, who are much less responsive.
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Immigrants Equilibrate Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the Great Recession.
Brian C. Cadena,Brian K. Kovak +1 more
TL;DR: This article showed that low-skilled Mexican-born immigrants' location choices in the U.S. respond strongly to changes in local labor demand, and that this geographic elasticity helps equalize spatial differences in labor market outcomes for lowskilled native workers, who are much less responsive.
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Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium: A Local Labor Markets Approach †
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine these two strands of literature by developing a theoretically consistent approach to studying the causal effect of globalization on the skill premium of workers with different levels of skill or education.