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Women Helping Women? Evidence from Private Sector Data on Workplace Hierarchies
Kunze, Astrid - 2014
This paper studies gender spillovers in career advancement using 11 years of employer-employee matched data on the population of white-collar workers at over 4,000 private-sector establishments in Norway. Our data include unusually detailed job information for each worker, which enables us to...
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Parenthood, Family Friendly Workplaces, and the Gender Gaps in Early Work Careers
Hotz, V. Joseph - 2017
We consider the role that workplace attributes play in accounting for the divergence in the careers of women and men, with the onset of parenthood. We exploit matched employer-employee data from Sweden to characterize a model-based index of workplace "family friendliness" and analyze the effect...
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Much Ado About Nothing : American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India
Liu, Runjuan - 2008
China and India have been particularly strong. Then workers in occupations that are exposed to inshoring and offshore …We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … China and India. Using March-to-March matched CPS data for 1996-2006 we examine the impacts on (1) occupation and industry …
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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz - 2011
We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We …
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Services in the Domestic Economy and in World Transactions
Kravis, Irving B. - 1983
A new interest in the role of services in world transactions has been generated by the current efforts of the U. S. Government to reduce barriers to international trade in services.The paper distinguishes four different classifications of economic activities between services and corrmodities....
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Service Imports, Workforce Composition, and Firm Performance : Evidence from Finnish Microdata
Ariu, Andrea - 2019
This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro data on service imports, work- force composition, and firm characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a significant increase in services imports (2002-2012). We use...
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The Division and Size of Gains from Liberalization of Service Networks
Bhattarai, Keshab - 1998
This paper emphasizes the different nature of cross border liberalization in network related services, such as telecoms, compared to liberalization in goods. In the presence of network externalities, it argues that if two disjoint country service networks involving a small and large country are...
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Global Service Efficiency and the Role of Special and Differential Based Negotiation
Yao, Daqing - 2016
This paper argues that the pursuit of special and differential treatments (SDT) by developing countries has hampered the liberalization of global service trade, which is one of the causes of the only slowing improving of service efficiency globally. We use value added per worker as a proxy of...
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A Sorted Tale of Globalization : White Collar Jobs and the Rise of Service Offshoring
Liu, Runjuan - 2011
We study how the rise of trade in services with China and India has impacted U.S. labour markets. The topic has two … for 1996-2007. The cumulative 10-year impact of rising service imports from China and India has been as follows. (1 …
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Globotics and Macroeconomics : Globalisation and Automation of the Service Sector
Baldwin, Richard E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Globalisation affects the functioning of the macroeconomy. The macroeconomy's functioning, in turn, conditions the conduct and impact of monetary policy. This is why globalisation matters for central banks. It is also why central bankers should pay attention to the evolution of globalisation....
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