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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 - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 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...

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Trade and unions: Can exporters benefit from collective bargaining?

Capuano, Stella; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014

in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more … to evaluate firms' value functions under individual or collective bargaining. Exporting further decreases average … production costs for large firms in the collective bargaining regime, allowing them to benefit from additional external economies …

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The German-Czech border region after the fall of the Iron Curtain: Effects on the labour market : an empirical study using the IAB Employment Sample (IABS)

Moritz, Michael; Gröger, Margit - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007

"Using the IAB Employment Sample (IABS) covering 1980-2001 we investigate what impact the fall of the Iron Curtain has had on the skill structure of employment and wages in the western German districts neighbouring the Czech Republic. The introduction of free trade in this region, which has one...

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Spatial effects of open borders on the Czech labour market

Moritz, Michael - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

"Hardly noticed in Western Europe the fall of the Iron Curtain had also effects on the regional structures of the labour markets in the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC). I analyse whether during the undoubtedly increasing integration of markets the Czech border region close to the...

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Trade unions go global!

Donado, Alejandro; Wälde, Klaus - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"Worker movements played a crucial role in making workplaces safer. Workplace safety is costly for firms but increases …

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Trade liberalisation, technical change and skill-specific unemployment

Engelmann, Sabine - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011

heterogenous firms and search-and-matching frictions in the labour market. By considering different sectors and factors of …

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Trade and qualification : linking qualification needs to Germany's export flows

Mönnig, Anke; Zika, Gerd; Maier, Tobias - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013

"Foreign markets determine success and failure of those industries that have be-come reliant on foreign demand, impair the demand for employment and invoke changes in occupational fields and qualification requirements. This paper aims to disclose the direct and indirect influence of major...

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Profiles of local growth and industrial change : facts and an explanation

Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012

"In this paper we take a detailed look at the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in German regions over the period 1978-2008. In the aggregate, the German economy is characterized by a secular decline of the manufacturing sector and a rise of the modern service economy. This trend of structural...

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International trade and collective bargaining outcomes : evidence from German employer-employee data

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012

more open industries. The exporter wage premium is highest for low productivity firms. In line with theory, these findings … measures that are free of skill composition. We find that rent-sharing is less pronounced in more export intensive firms or in …

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International trade, technical change and wage inequality in the U.K. economy

Engelmann, Sabine - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012

groups. International trade is measured as changes in product prices and technical change as total factor productivity (TFP …

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