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We find that trade unions have a rational incentive to oppose the adoption of labour-saving technology when labour demand is inelastic and unions care much for employment relative to wages. Trade liberalization typically increases trade union technology opposition. These conclusions are reached...
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Using micro data for Belgium we investigate the relationship between occupational tasks changes and the rise of service trade. We focus the analysis on the extensive margin and look at the heterogeneous proliferation of firms involved in exports and imports of services across sectors...
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We compare the trade and labour approaches to wage inequality. We first look at the theoretical differences, stressing the different roles ascribed to sector and factor bias, labour supply and the theory of technical change in trade models with endogenous prices. We then briefly review some of...
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-way offshoring/trade-in-tasks. …
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This paper examines the channels through which offshoring affects employment in a representative sample of German … establishments, using a difference-in-differences matching approach. Offshoring establishments are identified by an increase in the … share of foreign to total inputs. We find that an average offshoring establishment has higher employment, higher …
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Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilizing a large household panel and … combining it with industry level information on industries' outsourcing activities from input-output tables. This approach …-level studies. We find that outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Applying two alternative skill classifications we find …
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-level trade flows with firm-specific instrumental variables based on world demand and supply shocks. Both export and offshoring … shocks have a positive effect on wages. Exports increase wages for all occupational categories while offshoring has … elasticity of wages with respect to exports and offshoring is higher than in firms with no collective bargaining. Wage gains …
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imports but German sector-level outcomes exhibit some covariation consistent with faster task offshoring in sectors exposed to …
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workers at home and abroad. In an extension to our baseline model, we illustrate that offshoring production from the high …
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We analyze the effects of offshoring of intermediate input production on labour demand in Sweden, distinguishing … that offshoring -- in particular to low-income countries -- tends to shift labour demand away from workers with an … intermediate level of education. Offshoring to high-income countries, which is the largest component of overall offshoring, does …
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