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This study provides an empirical investigation of the adjustment process of labour in Indian manufacturing industries …, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The analysis is based on a dynamic model … applied to a panel of 22 two-digit manufacturing industries for the time period of 22 years covering 1980/81 to 2001/02. We …
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administrative dataset on manufacturing workers. We find that the international fragmentation of production negatively affects job … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …
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estimates suggest that import competition from China explains almost 10% of the reduction in the manufacturing employment share …
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It is widely believed that globalization increases the volatility of employment and decreases the bargaining power of …
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unemployment, lower labor force participation, and reduced wages in local labor markets that house import-competing manufacturing ….S. manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment, disability, retirement, and healthcare also rise sharply in …
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2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face … their initial two-digit manufacturing industries, and more time working elsewhere in manufacturing and outside of …
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-proximate villages. The demand for education generated through manufacturing growth appears to have a much larger effect on female …
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I illustrate that the welfare improvement property of the Melitz model is due to the shape of the aggregate labor demand curve, which slopes upwards. By slightly changing some assumptions in the model, this curve may have a negative slope. In this case, increases in aggregate productivity result...
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This paper studies gross worker flows to explain the rising informality in Brazilian metropolitan labor markets from 1983-2002. This period covers two economic cycles, several stabilization plans, a far-reaching trade liberalization, and changes in labor legislation through the Constitutional...
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LMICs. GMM techniques are applied to an original panel dataset comprising 28 manufacturing sectors for 23 countries over a …
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