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Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...
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Trade theory consists of a portfolio of models. What elements might be useful in modeling the offshoring of white … characteristics of offshoring, and then use those models to identify the effects of technological or institutional changes which allow … offshoring of white-collar services to occur. …
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employment expansion, an effect quite different from the source of gains from trade in the conventional approach. Second, we show … workers at home and abroad. In an extension to our baseline model, we illustrate that offshoring production from the high …
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paper is motivated by recent evidence that trade has greatly expanded on the extensive margin (aka fragmentation, offshoring …
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lower unemployment. Whether ‘work-sharing’ works – whether employment rises when hours per worker are reduced – is … standard hours, employment rose by 0.3–0.7%, but that total hours worked fell by 2–3%, implying possible output losses. As a … group, however, workers were better off as the wage bill rose. The employment growth implied by the mean standard hours …
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relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female. The withdrawal from …
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It is widely believed that the integration of European economies will have little impact on labour mobility. This does not mean, however, that European labour markets will be unaffected by the process of economic integration. In this paper we show that with increased competition from closer...
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reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the …
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