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Firm Heterogeneity and the Labour Market Effects of Trade Liberalisation
Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2021
This paper develops a model that incorporates workers' fair wage preferences into a general equilibrium framework with monopolistic competition between heterogeneous firms à la Melitz (2003). By assuming that the wage considered to be fair by workers depends on the productivity and thus the...
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Can deunionization lead to international outsourcing?
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - 2005
higher domestic wages, reduce incentives for international outsourcing. Though somewhat surprising, this result provides a … theoretical reconciliation of the empirically observed trends of deunionization and increased international outsourcing in many … - will increase incentives for international outsourcing. …
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Skill, Innovation and Wage Inequality : Can Immigrants Be the Trump Card?
Das, Gouranga - 2019
that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could … embedded in talented immigrants targeted for innovation. Empirical verification using a VAR regression model in the context of … immigration facilitates innovation with favorable impact on reducing wage-gap …
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Skills Scarcity and Export Intensity
Perroni, Carlo - 2019
We describe a model of trade with input based product differentiation and non-proportional trade costs that is capable of predicting a positive correlation between firms' export intensity, the price of their exports, and the wages they pay to their workers. These correlations arise in the model...
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Occupation, Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality
Böhm, Michael J. - 2019
This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall wage inequality. Using long-running administrative panel data with detailed occupation codes, we first document that in all occupations, entrants and leavers earn lower wages...
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Trade Tariff, Wage Gap and Public Spending
Giuranno, Michele - 2019
This paper studies the interplay between the wage gap and government spending in a small open economy facing a shock in trade policy. We consider a specific factor model with an export sector, which uses skilled labour, and an import-competing sector, which uses unskilled labour. We find the...
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Which Ladder to Climb? Decomposing Life Cycle Wage Dynamics
Bayer, Christian - 2019
Wages grow and become more unequal as workers age. Economic theory focuses on worker investment in human capital …
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Monopsonistic Labor Markets and International Trade
Ranjan, Priya - 2019
This paper introduces a framework to study the impact of trade liberalization on wage inequality and welfare in the presence of monopsonistic labor markets. The interaction of firm heterogeneity in productivity with idiosyncratic preferences of workers for working at different firms generates...
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Gender Wage and Longevity Gaps and the Design of Retirement Systems
Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, … - 2021
We study the design of pension benefits for male and female workers. Women live longer than men but have a lower wage. Individuals can be single or live in couples who pool their incomes. Social welfare is utilitarian but an increasing concave transformation of individuals’ lifetime utilities...
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The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Goerlach, Joseph-Simon - 2021
This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model where individuals differ in ability and location preference to evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants’ careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our analysis highlights a novel form of selective return...
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