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The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment
Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K. - CESifo - 2014
This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734330
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Off-Shoring and Productivity Growth in the Italian Manufacturing Industries
Daveri, Francesco; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia - CESifo - 2008
manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry (“narrow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181530
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Does Importing Intermediates Increase the Demand for Skilled Workers? Plant-level Evidence from Indonesia
Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Liang, Yawen; Rodrigue, Joel - CESifo - 2013
This paper examines whether importing has contributed to skill upgrading among Indonesian plants. Our data records the distribution of years of employee schooling in each plant. We examine how importing affects the demand for highly educated workers within both production and non-production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877785
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Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-level Evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - CESifo - 2014
It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877822
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Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - CESifo - 2014
2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China’s spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face … their initial two-digit manufacturing industries, and more time working elsewhere in manufacturing and outside of …
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Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform
Filho, Naércio Aquino Menezes; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2007
Tracking individual workers across employers and industries after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that foreign import penetration and tariff reductions trigger worker displacements but that neither comparative-advantage industries nor exporters absorb displaced workers for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094453
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Industry-Level Labour Demand Elasticities Across the Eurozone: Will There Be Any Gain After the Pain of Internal Devaluation?
Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - CESifo - 2014
In this paper we estimate disaggregated labour demand equations using panel data involving observations across time (1970-2007) for twenty-three industries across eleven euro area countries. By using the EU KLEMS database, which provides data across countries, we provide industry-by-industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790173
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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2014
This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099759
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International Trade, Factor Mobility and the Persistence of Cultural-Institutional Diversity
Belloc, Marianna; Bowles, Samuel - CESifo - 2009
Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013942
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Can Deunionization Lead to International Outsourcing?
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2005
countries. We further show that globalization - interpreted as either market integration or increased product market competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766312