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There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
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leads to an endogenous, unequal distribution of the health-related consequences of pollution across income groups in a … manner consistent with epidemiologic studies, in contrast to much of the literature which assumes equal health effects for …
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This paper re-examines the trade-based explanation of increased wage inequality in developed countries by focusing on international outsourcing. It is the first detailed study to address the effects of outsourcing on labour markets in the UK. In a recent paper, Feenstra and Hanson (1996)...
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This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import-use matrices of input-output tables for manufacturing...
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Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with … fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … definitions of outsourcing. Furthermore we find some evidence that high-skilled workers experienced increased wages due to …
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could bring a considerable increase of exports and output as well as changes in the composition of output and employment …. Thus export simulation studies in combination with input output analysis and employment analysis is useful. In the analysis … presented the focus is mainly on sectoral output and employment effects where the key sectors are the automotive sector …
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stagnant export shares. The limited export competitiveness has hampered external demand, growth and employment. Applying, for …
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There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed … Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role … played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
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suggest that immigration exhibits negative effects on native employment and wages, and has no effects on total employment …. Imports affect employment negatively and exports have a positive effect on wages. The German results indicate that immigration … and trade is not harming employment and wages. Natives seem to be complements to migrants, at least to those from East …
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employment creation nor the decrease in within-country inequality are automatically assured by increasing trade and FDI. The … other main findings of the paper are that: 1) the employment effect can be very diverse in different areas of the world …
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