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Employment Polarization in Spain along the Cycle 1997-2012

Anghel, Brindusa; de la Rica, Sara; Lacuesta, Aitor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This article analyzes changes in the occupational employment share in Spain for the period 1997-2012 and the way particular sociodemographic adapt to those changes. There seems to be clear evidence of employment polarization between 1997 and 2012 that accelerates over the recession. Changes in...

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Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States

Autor, David; Dorn, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...

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The "Task Approach" to Labor Markets: An Overview

Autor, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

An emerging literature argues that changes in the allocation of workplace "tasks" between capital and labor, and between domestic and foreign workers, has altered the structure of labor demand in industrialized countries and fostered employment polarization – that is, rising employment in the...

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The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market

Autor, David; Dorn, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...

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Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets

Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition experience significant falls in employment, particularly in manufacturing and among...

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Job Tasks, Computer Use, and the Decreasing Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in the UK

Elsayed, Ahmed; de Grip, Andries; Fouarge, Didier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using data from the UK Skills Surveys, we show that the part-time pay penalty for female workers within low- and medium-skilled occupations decreased significantly over the period 1997-2006. The convergence in computer use between part-time and full-time workers within these occupations explains...

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On the Organizational Structure of Multinational Firms: Which Sourcing Mode for Which Input?

Suedekum, Jens; Nowak, Verena; Schwarz, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Recent studies indicate that firms often outsource standard and simple tasks, while keeping complex and important inputs inside their boundaries. This observation is difficult to reconcile with the property rights approach of the firm, which suggests that important components should be...

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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes

Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm’s headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...

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Home Market Effect versus Multinationals

Toulemonde, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number and the location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases when trade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production into a single country, which is likely to be...

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Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Wage Inequality? An Empirical Investigation

Figini, Paolo; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

foreign direct investment (FDI) and wage inequality. We particularly check whether this relationship is non-linear, in line … with a theoretical discussion. We find that the effect of FDI differs according to the level of development: we depict two … linear effect in developing countries; wage inequality increases with FDI inward stock but this effect diminishes with …

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