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Labor Market Adjustments after a Large Import Shock: Evidence from the German Clothing Industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
Braakmann, Nils; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
small increases in unemployment risk and no wage effects on the individual level, despite a 30% increase in plant mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558932
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What Determines the Share of Labour in National Income? A Cross-Country Analysis
Guerriero, Marta; Sen, Kunal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Recent evidence on functional income distribution suggests that the shares of capital and labour in national income vary considerably both over time and across countries. Specifically, there seems to be a general reduction in the labour share around the world, in particular from the mid-1980s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884358
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Wage Setting in the Colombian Manufacturing Industry
Agudelo, Sonia A.; Sala, Hector - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We show that wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry is not fundamentally driven by labor productivity in … minimum wage or the price wedge between manufacturing and consumption prices – together with a higher exposure to … international trade. Implementation of a true wage bargaining system is suggested as a critical policy target to prevent the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011228304
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Trade Policy and Labor Services: Final Status Options for the West Bank and Gaza
Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper considers the policy options of the West Bank and Gaza (WBG) with respect to trade and the exports of labor services. It concludes that i) a non-discriminatory trade policy (NDTP) is unambiguously superior to an FTA with Israel; ii) the WBG should pursue a NDTP with all its neighbors,...
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Trade Liberalization and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Brazil
Gaddis, Isis; Pieters, Janneke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
labor force participation and employment after a period of around two years. Our results are robust to a variety of … measures of trade protection and different time periods. Moreover, we find evidence that employment flows across sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010733808
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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
relocate to other activities. But if the East's economy is relatively small, their wage losses are not very large. Things are … East but not in the West. Some workers in the West can then experience very large wage losses. Thus, rigid labor markets in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761656
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Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Sala, Davide - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Selling internationally requires products that resonate with an international customer base and therefore an approach to markets that is in keeping with diverse cultures (i.e., relational capital). As emphasized by international business studies, this relational capital is in turn related to the...
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Offshoring and Job Stability: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing
Lo Turco, Alessia; Maggioni, Daniela; Picchio, Matteo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995–2001 by using an administrative dataset on manufacturing workers. We find that the international fragmentation of production negatively affects job stability. Service offshoring and material purchases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279284
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Isolating the Network Effect of Immigrants on Trade
Aleksynska, Mariya; Peri, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business networks, and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade. Using cross-sectional data and controlling for the overall bilateral stock of migrants, the share of migrants employed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584366
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Do Foreign-Owned Firms Provide Better Working Conditions Than Their Domestic Counterparts? A Comparative Analysis
Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro S.; Schank, Thorsten; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
wage effects of foreign takeovers reduce in size when controlling for changes in the composition of the workforce, although … they tend to remain positive and statistically significant. However, the wage effects associated with worker movements from … domestic to foreign firms are potentially important, particularly in emerging economies. Third, we look not only at wage …
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