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Outsourcing, Unemployment and Welfare Policy
Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - 2021
The paper investigates the consequences of outsourcing of labor intensive activities to lowwage economies. This trend … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii …) it increases inequality among high- and low-income groups; and (iii) the gains from outsourcing can be made Pareto …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316451
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Native Welfare Losses from High Skilled Immigration
Kemnitz, Alexander - 2008
This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on low skilled employment, provided that fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770182
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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce : How Services Facilitate Firm's International Sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2021
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316255
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Worker-Specific Effects of Globalisation
Egger, Hartmut - 2009
This paper sets up a general equilibrium model, in which firms are heterogeneous due to productivity differences and workers have fairness preferences and hence provide full effort only if their factor return is sufficiently high. With the wage considered to be fair by workers depending on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155424
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Offshoring Tasks, Yet Creating Jobs?
Kohler, Wilhelm - 2010
We show that in a Ricardo-Viner-type trade model with unemployment due to search and matching the productivity effect of offshoring emphasized by Grossman & Rossi-Hansberg (2008) emerges as a vehicle of job creation. Improvements in the technology of offshoring causes job losses at the extensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144365
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International Trade and Job Polarization : Evidence at the Worker Level
Keller, Wolfgang - 2016
This paper examines the role of international trade for job polarization, the phenomenon in which employment for high- and low-wage occupations increases but mid-wage occupations decline. With employer-employee matched data on virtually all workers and firms in Denmark between 1999 and 2009, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986113
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Peer Effects in the Workplace
Cornelissen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - 2021
Existing evidence on peer effects in a work environment stems from either laboratory experiments or from real-word studies referring to a specific firm or specific occupation. Yet, it is unclear to what extent these findings apply to the labor market in general. In this paper, therefore, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315716
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Why Do Low- and High-Skill Workers Migrate? Flow Evidence from France
Gross, Dominique M.; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2021
With a focus on the role of cultural clustering and income distribution, this paper investigates whether standard determinants influence international migration of workers to France with the same intensity across different skill levels and with or without free mobility. We find that low-skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317429
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Analysis of Labor Tax Progression Under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2010
-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136006
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Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Markets under Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2009
-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154267