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Do labour market institutions matter? : Micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries

Geishecker, Ingo (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor); … - 2007

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …. Estimating the same specification on different data show that there are some interesting differences in the effect of outsourcing …

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Automation, globalization and vanishing jobs : a labor market sorting view

Faia, Ester; Laffitte, Sébastien; Mayer, Maximilian; … - 2020

offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search frictions hinder … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …

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Gender-segmented labor markets and trade shocks

Góes, Carlos; López Acevedo, Gladys; Robertson, Raymond - 2023

This paper focuses on how gender segmentation in labor markets shapes the local effects of international trade. We first develop a theoretical framework that embeds trade and gender-segmented labor markets to show that foreign demand shocks may either increase or decrease the female-to-male...

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Local labor markets dynamics and export shocks : theory and evidence from Indonesia

Góes, Carlos; Segnana, Juan; Robertson, Raymond; … - 2023

We study the dynamic effects of export exposure over local labor markets in Indonesia. We develop an empirical strategy to instrument exposure to exports using exposure to foreign demand shocks and validate it showing that the labor market responses are consistent with those expected from demand...

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Export and labor market outcomes : a supply chain perspective : evidence from Vietnam

Kokas, Deeksha; López Acevedo, Gladys; Vu, Ha - 2023

Are the labor market changes from exports specific to exporting industries, or do they dissipate throughout the economy? To analyze this question, we study the case of Vietnam. Vietnam exported a total of $356B, making it the number 18 exporter in the world in 2021. Recent studies show provinces...

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Trade liberalization and local labor markets in Morocco

Roche Rodriguez, Jaime Alfonso; Robertson, Raymond; … - 2023

Morocco's trade liberalization policies have promoted economic progress over the past two decades. However, effects on Morocco's local labor market outcomes vary. By combining three complementary approaches and modeling techniques, this paper estimates: (i) how trade agreements have increased...

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Employment dynamics and business relocation : new evidence from the national establishment time series

Neumark, David (contributor); Zhang, Junfu (contributor); … - 2005

We analyze and assess new evidence on employment dynamics from a new data source the National Establishment Time Series (NETS). The NETS offers advantages over existing data sources for studying employment dynamics, including tracking business establishment relocations that can contribute to job...

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Does offshoring shape labor market imperfections? : a comparative analysis of Belgian and Dutch firms

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Fuss, Catherine; Vancauteren, Mark - 2023

We study the relationship between offshoring and the prevalence and intensity of labor market imperfections at the firm …-markdown pricing originating from firms' monopsony power in both countries. Offshoring benefits firms in that imports of final as well … offshoring on wage markdowns arises from an increase in productivity that is only imperfectly passed through into an increase in …

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Cumulative Effects of Labor Market Distortions in a Developing Country

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan - 1999

This paper considers a small open economy with an input-output industrial structure that creates vertical linkages and multiple equilibria. An imperfect labor market is introduced by assuming unionized labor. It is shown that a deregulation of the labor market may trigger a large discontinuous...

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Labor market effects of bounds on domestic outsourcing

Jiménez, Bruno; Rendón, Sílvio - 2022

We investigate the labor market effects of putting bounds to domestic outsourcing in Peru. A series of difference … market effects. Limiting domestic outsourcing increases labor force participation by 1.5 percentage points and employment by … impact on labor formality nor real wages. Our results suggest that a policy of restricting outsourcing does neither destruct …

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