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Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-level Evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - CESifo - 2014
It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms’ exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877822
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Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform
Menezes-Filho, Naercio A.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2021
Tracking individual workers across employers and industries after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that … comparative-advantage industries and at exporters. These findings are robust to instrumenting trade barriers and export status … predictors of labor turnover. Trade liberalization is associated with significantly more transitions to informal work status and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317183
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Industry-Level Labour Demand Elasticities Across the Eurozone : Will There Be Any Gain after the Pain of Internal Devaluation?
Adam, Antonis - 2014
In this paper we estimate disaggregated labour demand equations using panel data involving observations across time (1970-2007) for twenty-three industries across eleven Euro area countries. By using the EU KLEMS database, which provides data across countries, we provide industry-by-industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051276
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Exporting and Labor Demand : Micro-Level Evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas - 2014
It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056834
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Does Importing Intermediates Increase the Demand for Skilled Workers? Plant-Level Evidence from Indonesia
Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Liang, Yawen; Rodrigue, Joel - 2021
This paper examines whether importing has contributed to skill upgrading among Indonesian plants. Our data records the distribution of years of employee schooling in each plant. We examine how importing affects the demand for highly educated workers within both production and non-production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315694
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Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - CESifo - 2014
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … trade shocks. High-wage workers are better able to move across employers with minimal earnings losses, and are more likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948900
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Market Integration, Wage Concentration, and the Cost and Volume of Traded Machines
Edwards, T. Huw; Perroni, Carlo - CESifo - 2014
on the volume of intermediate goods trade and the number of varieties produced are mutually reinforcing, resulting in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948859
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Trade and Unions: Can Exporters Benefit from Collective Bargaining?
Capuano, Stella; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, Jans-Jörg - CESifo - 2014
Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more likely to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011086453
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Does China Still Have a Labor Cost Advantage?
Ceglowski, Janet - 2011
In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China's cost advantage in manufactures. This paper explores the evolution of China's relative unit labor costs in manufacturing over 1998-2009. Between 1998 and 2003 China's unit labor costs fell,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120237
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Incomplete Specialization and Offshoring Across Europe
Frensch, Richard - 2012
been done by analyzing gross trade flows related to offshore activities using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc … to theoretically unmotivated attempts to allow for both complete and incomplete specialization influences on gross trade … patterns. This view reveals that countries' multilateral specialization incentives drive bilateral trade, corresponding to and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106562