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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers

Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers’ wages are unaffected or even tend to …

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Complementary Tasks and the Limits to the Division of Labour

Görlich, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

During the recent decades, multitasking has become a more and more common phenomenon at workplaces. Rather than specializing in a job task, workers perform bundles of tasks. Bundling occurs when tasks are complements. Using individual-level data about job tasks, we analyze which tasks are...

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Intra-Firm Trade and Employment in US Manufacturing

Blanas, Sotiris - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

This paper studies the impact of trade within US-headquartered multinational companies (MNCs) on labour demand for all employees, as well as, for those of high and low skill in US manufacturing for the period 1995 – 2005. We find strong evidence on the positive and negative effect of...

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Creative Destruction and Unemployment in an Open Economy Model

Stepanok, Ignat - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

I develop a model of endogenous economic growth and search and matching frictions in the labor market. I study the effect of trade liberalization between two identical economies on unemployment. I solve for two versions of the growth model, the first one where trade liberalization has only a...

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Private Labels and International Trade: Trading Variety for Volume

Blanchard, Emily; Chesnokova, Tatyana; Willmann, Gerald - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

This paper explores the role of pooled-producer, e.g. private label, trade intermediation in shaping the range and diversity of exports. Direct sales maintain a firm's unique product characteristics (`brand equity'), whereas trade through an intermediary can take two forms — either a...

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Trade, Education, and The Shrinking Middle Class

Blanchard, Emily; Willmann, Gerald - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

We develop a new model of trade in which educational institutions drive comparative advantage and determine the distribution of human capital within and across countries. Our framework exploits a multiplicity of sectors and the continuous support of human capital choices to demonstrate that...

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Trade Liberalization and Wage Inequality: New Insights from a Dynamic Trade Model with Heterogeneous Firms and Comparative Advantage

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Mileva, Mariya - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

We develop a dynamic general equilibrium trade model with comparative advantage, heterogeneous firms, heterogeneous workers and endogenous firm entry to study wage inequality during the adjustment after trade liberalization. We find that trade liberalization increases wage inequality both in the...

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Smoothing the adjustment to trade liberalization

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Mileva, Mariya - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

We use a dynamic general equilibrium trade model with comparative advantage, heterogeneous firms, heterogeneous workers and endogenous firm entry to analyze economic policy meant to compensate the losers of trade liberalization and reduce the ensuing wage inequality. We consider several...

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Lobbying: Buying and utilizing access

Mayer, Wolfgang; Mujumdar, Sudesh - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

This paper introduces an alternative to the lobbying literature's standard assumption that money buys policies. Our model - in which influence-seeking requires both money to buy access and managerial time to utilize access - offers three significant benefits. First, it counters criticism that...

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International trade and polarization in the labor market

Das, Satya P. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

workforce. The effects off-shoring on wages and job composition are also studied. That of low-skill and high-skill tasks, not …

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