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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Sieglich, Sebastian - 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...
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Exporters, multinationals and residual wage inequality : evidence and theory
Schroeder, Sarah - 2020
This paper studies the implications for wage inequality of two distinct forms of globalisation, namely trade and …-ante homogeneous workers, heterogeneous firms and search and matching frictions into a multi-region model of trade and FDI with … interplay between trade, FDI and labour market institutions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315942
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TBTs, firm organization and labour structure : the effect of technical barriers to trade on skills
Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Fontagné, Lionel; Orefice, … - 2019
Trade shocks in export markets may affect the employment composition and the organization of exporting firms. In … on firms' organization of shocks induced by the introduction of Technical Barriers to Trade (TBTs) in exporting countries …. It relies on the Specific Trade Concern (STC) data released by the WTO to identify trade-restrictive TBT measures …
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Import competition and the great US employment sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2015
Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528328
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Does importing intermediates increase the demand for skilled workers? : plant-level evidence from Indonesia
Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Liang, Yawen; Rodrigue, Joel - 2013
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/10010199687
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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; Moutos, Thomas - 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...
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Trade adjustment : worker level evidence
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - 2014
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … trade shocks. Highwage workers are better able to move across employers with minimal earnings losses, and are more likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412742
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Offshoring and volatility of demand
Benz, Sebastian; Kohler, Wilhelm; Yalçin, Erdal - 2016
In this paper we explore the role that demand uncertainty plays for the offshoring decision, and the role that offshoring plays for domestic volatility of employment. Offshoring is modeled as in Antràs & Helpman (2004), but we assume complete contracts. Firms are heterogeneous as in Melitz...
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Firms' exports, volatility and skills : evidence from France
Bas, Maria; Bombarda, Pamela; Jean, Sébastien; … - 2019
Inequalities between workers of different skills have been growing in the era of globalization. Firms' internationalization mode has an impact on job stability. Exporting firms are not only exposed to different foreign shocks, they also pay skill-intensive fixed costs to serve foreign markets....
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Slowdown in immigration, labor shortages, and declining skill premia
Mandelman, Federico S.; Yu, Yang; Zanetti, Francesco; … - 2024
We document a steady decline in low-skilled immigration that began with the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, which was associated with labor shortages in low-skilled service occupations and a decline in the skill premium. Falling returns to high-skilled jobs coincided with a decline in the...
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