Similar Search Results

Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes : Wage Bargaining, Search Frictions, and Firm Heterogeneity

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Prat, Julien; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

We introduce search unemployment à la Pissarides into Melitz (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms. We allow … effect of trade influences labor market outcomes. Trade liberalization lowers unemployment and raises real wages as long as …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860638

Temporary Shocks and Offshoring: The Role ofExternal Economies and Firm Heterogeneity

Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to thepresence of externalities …, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanenteffects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in an …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862878

Services Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859492

Offshoring and Unemployment

Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates ofunemployment, we … construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which labor is mobileacross the two sectors, and unemployment is caused by … search frictions. We find that,contrary to general perception, wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases due …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862882

Why Ex(Im)porters Pay More:Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker Panels

Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer-employee data set. We improve on the previous literature (i) by using anew methodology to quantify the contribution of an extensive set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522216

Do Labour Market Institutions Matter?Micro-Level Wage Effects of InternationalOutsourcing in Three European Countries

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger; Munch, Jakob Roland - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countrieswith markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861172

Globalization and Employment: Imported Skill BiasedTechnological Change in Developing Countries

Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namelythe relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-basedemployment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs)...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863024

Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy:Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model

Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

The robust empirical finding that exporting firms are systematically different from firms thatmerely serve domestic consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of tradetheory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The establishment of a canonical modeldue to Melitz (2003) has...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522197

A Simple Theory of Industry Location andResidence Choice

Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael; Wrede, Matthias - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper provides a simple theory of geographical mobility which simultaneously explainspeoples choice of residences in space and the location of industry. Residences are chosenon the basis of the utility which mobile households obtain across locations...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862705

Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival:First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany

Wagner, Joachim; Weche Gelübcke, John Philipp - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival forenterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that mergeinformation from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices, from administrative datacollected by the Tax Authorities and from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486992