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Munch, Jakob Roland; Skaksen, Jan Rose - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the … literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that …, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains arising from an increase in the division of labor, domestic …

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Comparative Advantage, Segmentation and Informal Earnings: A Marginal Treatment Effects Approach

Arias, Omar; Khamis, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper employs recently developed econometric models of marginal treatment effects to analyze the relevance of labor market comparative advantage and segmentation in the participation and earnings performance of workers in formal and informal jobs in Argentina. A novel household data set on...

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Making Sense of Bolkestein-Bashing: Trade Liberalization under Segmented Labor Markets

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Trade liberalization is often met with sharp opposition. Recent examples include the so-called "Bolkestein" directive, which allows service providers from a given EU member to temporarily work in another member country. One way to view such a reform is that it simply widens the range of goods...

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Modeling International Trade Flows Between Eastern European Countries and OECD Countries

Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert; Sova, Ana Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Our paper deals with econometric developments for the estimation of the gravity model which lead to convergent parameter estimates even when a correlation exists between the explanatory variables and the specific unobservable characteristics of each unit. We implement panel data econometric...

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Comparative Advantage or Discrimination? Studying Male-Female Wage Differentials Using Displaced Workers

Troske, Kenneth R.; Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper we empirically examine differences in search behavior between men and women. We assess hypotheses regarding duration of search, wages and tenure. The hypotheses are derived from two models: the equilibrium search model with discriminatory firms by Black (1995) and an opportunity...

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Gender, Comparative Advantage and Labor Market Activity in Immigrant Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Crossley, Thomas F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

The family investment hypothesis predicts that credit-constrained immigrant families adopt a household strategy for financing post-migration human capital investment in which the partner with labor market comparative advantage engages in investment activities and the other partner undertakes...

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Access to Higher Education and Inequality: The Chinese Experiment

Wang, Xiaojun; Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We apply a semi-parametric latent variable model to estimate selection and sorting effects on the evolution of private returns to schooling for college graduates during China’s reform between 1988 and 2002. We find that there were substantial sorting gains under the traditional system, but...

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Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets

Günther, Isabel; Launov, Andrey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

It has been recently argued that the informal sector of the labor market in a developing economy shows a dual structure with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part being the result of market segmentation. To test this hypothesis we formulate an econometric model...

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Sorting, Selection, and Transformation of the Return to College Education in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi; Wang, Xiaojun - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We estimate selection and sorting effects on the evolution of the private return to schooling for college graduates during China’s between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus budget-constraint effects as China’s education policy has...

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Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?

Böckerman, Petri; Maliranta, Mika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special … employees' job satisfaction is reduced. However, the relationship between outsourcing and employee well-being is not entirely …

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