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Japan and Her Dealings with Offshoring: An Empirical Analysis with Aggregate Data

Agnese, Pablo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the … studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the …-2005. Moreover, I consider all industries within the economy and take account of both services and materials offshoring. My results …

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Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-Level Evidence from Germany

Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

It is widely believed that globalization increases the volatility of employment and decreases the bargaining power of workers. One mechanism explaining this relationship is given by the long-standing Hicks-Marshall laws of derived demand: with international trade increasing competition and...

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Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence

Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings...

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Made in China, Sold in Norway: Local Labor Market Effects of an Import Shock

Balsvik, Ragnhild; Jensen, Sissel; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We analyze whether regional labor markets are affected by expo- sure to import competition from China. We find negative employment effects for low-skilled workers, and observe that low-skilled workers tend to be pushed into unemployment or leave the labor force altogether. We find no evidence of...

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The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

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

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and instrumenting for U.S. imports using changes in Chinese imports by...

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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women

Heath, Rachel; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...

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Welfare in Models of Trade with Heterogeneous Firms

Janiak, Alexandre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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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The Determinants of Rising Informality in Brazil: Evidence from Gross Worker Flows

Maloney, William F.; Bosch, Mariano; Goni, Edwin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

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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Globalization and Employment: Imported Skill Biased Technological Change in Developing Countries

Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namely the relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). In doing so, this paper provides a direct...

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A Note on the Determinants and Consequences of Outsourcing Using German Data

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Pahnke, André; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using German data from the Institute for Employment Research Establishment Panel, this paper constructs two main measures of outsourcing and examines their determinants and consequences for employment. There are some commonalities in the correlates of the two measures of outsourcing, as well as...

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