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Firms’ main market, human capital, and wages
Alcalá Agulló, Francisco; Hernández, Pedro J. - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 1 (2010) 4, pp. 433-458
The literature on the exporter wage premium has focused on an exporter/non-exporter dichotomy. Instead, this paper provides first evidence that there is a more continuous destination-market effect. Using Spanish data, we estimate wage premia for establishments selling to the national, European...
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Effects of North–South trade on wage inequality and on human-capital accumulation
Afonso, Oscar; Gil, Pedro Mazeda - In: Economic Modelling 35 (2013) C, pp. 481-492
This paper develops an endogenous growth model with technological knowledge directed towards high- versus low-skilled labour, augmented with North–South international trade of intermediate goods and with human-capital accumulation, to analyse how trade affects wage inequality and the...
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Trading Places : Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine the role that immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting...
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Services trade and labour market outcomes in the United Kingdom
Lassmann, Andrea; Spinelli, Francesca - 2020
Services trade has become increasingly important, yet its impact on employment has been understudied at present. This … employment and wages in the United Kingdom. It finds that firms can benefit from services trade, through increased employment …
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Global value chains and trade in value-added : an initial assessment of the impact on jobs and productivity
OECD - 2016
by providing new evidence on employment embodied in value-added trade flows. Linking jobs data to the Trade in Value …-Added (TiVA) indicators first highlights that a large share of employment in OECD and key partner countries relies on consumption …. Within GVCs, there is also a shift from employment in core manufacturing activities to employment in service support …
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Exporting, skills and wage inequality
Klein, Michael W.; Moser, Christoph; Urban, Dieter M. - In: Labour Economics 25 (2013) C, pp. 76-85
International trade has been cited as a source of widening wage inequality in industrial nations. Most previous empirical evidence supports this claim by showing an effect in which increasing exports tilt demand towards firms which export and employ a relatively large proportion of...
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Trade, Wages, and Superstars
Manasse, Paolo; Turrini, Alessandro Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
We study the effect of 'globalization' on wage inequality. Our 'global' economy resembles Rosen's (1981) 'Superstars' economy, where a) innovations in production and communication technologies enable suppliers to reach a larger mass of consumers and to improve the (perceived) quality of their...
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Structural reforms to boost growth and living standards in Argentina
González Pandiella, Alberto - 2018
Over the last decades Argentina’s living standards have lost ground relative to other developed and emerging economies. Putting Argentina on a path to stronger, inclusive and job-rich growth requires boosting productivity and strengthening investment through wide-ranging structural reforms....
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Trade, foreign investment, and wage inequality in developing countries : exposure to foreign trade raises the skill premium in countries with a large stock of educated workers and...
Cigno, Alessandro - 2015
Liberalization of foreign trade and investment raises the domestic ratio of skilled to unskilled wages (skill premium) if the country has a sufficiently well-educated workforce, but lowers it otherwise. Wide wage inequality is undesirable on equity grounds, especially in poor countries where the...
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GVCs, jobs and routine content of occupations
Marcolin, Luca; Miroudot, Sébastien; Squicciarini, … - 2016
explaining employment levels of routine and non-routine occupations. The analysis encompasses 28 OECD countries over the period …-level Trade in Value Added (TiVA) indicators of offshoring and domestic outsourcing. The results suggest that employment in all …
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