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Global value chains and trade in value-added : an initial assessment of the impact on jobs and productivity
OECD - 2016
This paper contributes to a better understanding of the impact of global value chains (GVCs) on jobs and productivity 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...
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Der Beitrag des IuK-Sektors zur Verbesserung der Innovations- und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der inländischen Produktion und Beschäftigung
Faust, Konrad (contributor) - 1999
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From China with love: Effects of the Chinese economy on skill-biased technical change in the US
Chu, Angus C.; Cozzi, Guido; Furukawa, Yuichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
incorporating production offshoring into a North-South model of directed technical change. We �find that if offshoring is present … change in the North. This fi�nding highlights the different implications of offshoring and conventional trade on innovation …. Furthermore, we �find that an increase in the Southern stock of capital reduces offshoring and also leads to skill …
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Skill Bias, Trade, and Wage Dispersion
Monte, Ferdinando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Skill-biased technical change and trade integration have both been indicated to be the cause of the wide increase in wage inequality in U.S. in the last 50 years. This paper shows in a simple uni�ed framework why both mechanisms can reproduce the observed pattern of wage dispersion....
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Offshoring and Occupational Specificity of Human Capital
Ritter, Moritz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
they complete. The dynamic nature of the model allows for differentiation between short and long run effects of offshoring … on productivity and labour market outcomes. The welfare effects of increased offshoring are unambiguously positive; their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476380
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Offshoring of Medium-skill Jobs, Polarization, and Productivity Effect: Implications for Wages and Low-skill Unemployment
Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task- assignment model … with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring … (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to (unskilled-) skill-biased technology changes, while offshoring medium …
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Productivity growth in Latin American manufacturing: what role for international trade intensities?
Faundez, Sebastian; Mulder, Nanno; Carpentier, Nicole - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper analyzes the relationship between the intensity of international trade flows and labor productivity for 28 industries in the five main economies in the region (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico)using the Arellano-Bond generalized method of moments (GMM)estimator. The...
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Is there a producer quality wage premium similar to the exporter wage premium?
Hernández, Pedro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Exporter wage premium has been widely studied in the literature on international trade. The aim of this paper is analyze whether there is also a producer quality wage premium at firm level, and if so, analyze whether its origin is similar to the exporter wage premium. In other words, I test...
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Market opening, growth and employment
OECD - 2018
What can further market integration contribute to growth and employment? A series of hypothetical trade reform scenarios explores what countries at different levels of development can expect to gain from reforming tariffs, non-tariff barriers, trade facilitation and domestic support to...
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Die Auswirkungen der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit auf den Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland
Vogler-Ludwig, Kurt; Schönherr, Siegfried; Taube, Markus; … - 1999
/oder negative Begleiteffekte auf den Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland ausgehen. Obwohl die deutsche Entwicklungshilfe primär …
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