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We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings by employer spanning close to two decades. Individuals who in 1991 … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face …
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This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …
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In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade … offshoring, and it is only at that level that further economic integration will lead to both wage moderation and offshoring … activities. Therefore, our analysis suggests that rather than provoking a downsizing of the welfare state, offshoring defines an …
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We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings by employer spanning close to two decades. Individuals who in 1991 … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045347
I study the effects of service offshoring on white-collar employment, using highly disaggregated occupational data for … service offshoring is skill-biased, because it raises employment among high-skilled occupations and lowers employment among … the high degree of censoring of the employment variable and the small cross-sectional dimension of the panel. I find that …
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faster task offshoring in sectors exposed to lower labour-market tightness. We discuss policy implications of these findings …
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faster task offshoring in sectors exposed to lower labour-market tightness. We discuss policy implications of these findings. …
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, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and … earnings of young adult males. Consistent with Becker's model of household specialization, shocks to male's relative earnings …
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aggregate employment …
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self-employment. Output is reallocated to more productive firms but, given fast labor-productivity growth, this product …
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