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Comparative advantage and skill-specific unemployment
Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2009
We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two … sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment … real wages and unemployment levels in the unskilled labor intensive sector. However, the inequality of workers between …
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Unemployment in an interdependent world
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2009
We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …-over effects of labor market institutions ; unemployment ; international trade ; search frictions ; heterogeneous firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887183
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The pro-competitive consequences of trade in frictional labor markets
Firooz, Hamid - 2023
. In particular, I show that once markups are allowed to respond to trade liberalization, unemployment and residual wage …
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Capacity constraining labor market frictions in a global economy
Holzner, Christian; Larch, Mario - 2011
exporting firms triggers firm entry, reduces unemployment and increases wage dispersion in the on-the-job search model with …
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Offshoring and job polarisation between firms
Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo; Moser, Christoph; … - 2016
labour across firms affects economy-wide unemployment. Offshoring reduces unemployment when it is confined to high …
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Why "buy American" is a bad idea but politicians still like it
Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2010
When the world economy was recently hit by a severe recession, governments all over the world reacted by initiating stimulus packages. Some countries (among them, most notably, China and the US) tried to put special emphasis on their home industries by including "Buy local" clauses into the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697408
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Endogenous spatial production networks : quantitative implications for trade and productivity
Panigrahi, Piyush - 2021
Larger Indian firms selling inputs to other firms tend to have more customers, tend to be used more intensively by their customers, and tend to have larger customers. Motivated by these regularities, I propose a novel empirical model of trade featuring endogenous formation of input-output...
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Offshoring and firm overlap
Capuano, Stella; Egger, Hartmut; Koch, Michael; … - 2017
We set up a model of offshoring with heterogeneous producers that captures two empirical regularities of German offshoring firms. There is selection of larger, more productive firms into offshoring. However, the selection is not sharp, and offshoring and non-offshoring firms coexist over a wide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011611197
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IO for export(s)
Mrázová, Monika; Neary, J. Peter - 2019
We provide an overview and synthesis of recent work on models of monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms in international trade, paying particular attention to competition effects, pass-through, selection effects, and linking distributions of firm characteristics and outcomes. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129746
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Offshoring tasks, yet creating jobs?
Kohler, Wilhelm; Wrona, Jens - 2010
We show that in a Ricardo-Viner-type trade model with unemployment due to search and matching the productivity effect … improvements in the technology of offshoring. -- offshoring ; trade in tasks ; unemployment ; search and matching …
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