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Offshoring and Labor Markets
Hummels, David - 2016
We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … with the measurement of offshoring, focusing on the use of imported inputs that could have been produced by the importing … firm. We overview key theories related to offshoring and its labor market effects and survey three waves of the literature …
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Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers Using the Current Population Surveys
Ebenstein, Avraham - 2009
We link industry-level data on trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from the Current Population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463543
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On the Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Trade
Borjas, George J. - 1991
In the 1980s, the wages and employment rates of less-skilled Americans fell relative to those of more-skilled workers. This paper examines the contribution of the continuing inflow of less-skilled immigrants and the increasing importance of imports in the U.S. economy to these trends. Our...
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The Impact of Trade on Labor Market Dynamics
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2015
We develop a dynamic labor search model where production and consumption take place in spatially distinct labor markets with varying exposure to domestic and international trade. The model recognizes the role of labor mobility frictions, goods mobility frictions, geographic factors, and...
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Trade, technology and jobs
World Trade Organization - 2017
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New Technologies and Jobs in Europe
Albanesi, Stefania; Silva, António Dias da; Jimeno, Juan F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine the link between labour market developments and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and software in 16 European countries over the period 2011- 2019. Using data for occupations at the 3-digit level in Europe, we find that on average employment shares have increased...
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Labor Market Effects of Population Aging
Boersch-Supan, Axel - 2001
policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. The paper …
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Unemployment in the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States
Hoffmann, Florian - 2014
States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …
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Too Much of a Good Thing? Exporters, Multiproduct Firms and Labor Market Imperfections
Eckel, Carsten - 2017
International trade is primarily conducted by large, multiproduct firms (MPFs) that pay above average wages and exhibit high productivity. In this paper we show that if firms can invest in management technologies for identifying worker skill then they will enjoy a form of market power in the...
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