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The Effect of Export Market Access on Labor Market Power: Firm-level Evidence from Vietnam, Accessible Data
Figure 1. BTA tariff reductions on U.S. imports from Vietnam across 2-digit industries in 2001
This figure depicts the BTA tariff reductions across 2-digit manufacturing industries following the United States-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) in December 2001. The figure is a horizontal bar chart with industries listed on the y-axis and the BTA tariff changes (in percentage points) on the x-axis. The tariff changes range from less than 20 percentage points to nearly 60 percentage points. In order from smallest change to largest change, the industries depicted are motor-vehicles (34), metal-processing (27), food-Beverages (15), wood (20), paper(21), printing (22), leather (19), other-transportation (35), chemicals (24), other-electronics (31), other-equipment (29), radio-TV (32), computer-products (30), metal-products (28), minerals (26), medicals (33), plastics (25), furniture (36), textile (17), and fur (18).
Notes: The figure illustrates the tariff reductions across 2-digit manufacturing industries following the U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) in December 2001.
Figure 2. Vietnam’s Exports to the U.S. from 1998—2016
This figure depicts Vietnam’s exports to the U.S. from 1998 through 2016. The figure is a line graph with Vietnam’s exports to the U.S in billions of U.S dollars the y-axis and years from 1998 to 2016 on the x-axis. There is a vertical line at the year 2001 to mark when the BTA was implemented. There are three lines plotted on the graph itself. One line represents all exports, one line represents manufacturing exports, and one line represents primary exports. Prior to 2001 and the implementation of the BTA, all three lines are very close to zero. Following the BTA in 2001, the primary line has a positive slope, increasing slightly over the time horizon but remaining beneath five billion U.S. dollars. The other two lines also have a positive slope after the BTA in 2001, increasing more than the primary export line. The manufacturing exports line is slightly below the all exports line, and the all exports line nearly reaches 50 billion U.S. dollars by the end of the time horizon.
Figure 3. Distributions of Labor Market Distortions (in logs) over time
This figure depicts the distributions of labor market distortions (in logs) over time. In each year between 2000 and 2010 there is plotted the median labor market distortion as well as the interquartile range for that year. Years are represented on the x-axis and labor market distortions are on the y-axis. The median distortion tends downward over time starting close to 0.8 and ending near 0.4.
Figure 4. Distributions of labor market distortions (in logs) for manufacturing men and women
This figure is comprised of two panels, a left and a right panel. The panels depict the distributions of labor market distortions (in logs) for men and women who work in manufacturing. The panel on the left depicts two distribution curves: one for men and one for women. There is a vertical line drawn in red where the distortion is equal to zero. The peaks of both the men’s and the women’s distribution curves are to the right of this vertical red line, the women’s curve peak further to the right than the men’s. The peak for the men’s curve is higher than the women’s. The panel on the right is a decomposition of figure 3: the panel depicts the distributions of labor market distortions (in logs) over time for men in manufacturing and for women in manufacturing. In each year between 2000 and 2010 there is plotted the median labor market distortion for men and for women as well as the interquartile range for that year for men and for women. Years are represented on the x-axis and labor market distortions are on the y-axis. The median distortion tends downward over time for both men and women, but for any given year, the distortion is higher for women than it is for men.