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exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We … find that the negligible long term impact of automation on employment conceals significant short term positive and negative … effects within phases of the technology life cycle. We also find that the negative impact of ICT investment on employment is …
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that the experience of Western colonization strengthens the positive effect of inward FDI on employment whereas the … the endogeneity between inward FDI and employment as well as employing alternative measures for the colonization. … investment (FDI) and labor market. We construct a panel dataset containing 285 Chinese cities 2011 to 2017 along with detailed …
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Vietnam. Tariff reductions led to entry of foreign and private firms and to employment expansion in formal manufacturing, with … foreign entrants contributing most to employment growth. State firms stall employment reallocation through slower contraction …, highlighting the importance of studying FDI from multiple source countries in a lower-income host. …
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investment (FDI). Using a unique dataset which allows us to observe the worldwide activities of a large panel of multinational … transfer pricing by the host country affect investment and employment of foreign subsidiaries. The results indicate that …, compared with the unrestricted case, in the presence of a typical thin-capitalization rule, the tax-rate sensitivity of FDI is …
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possibilities single countries perceive in pursuing employment policies. In a setting where trade is driven by comparative … advantages, and thus wagecompetitiveness plays an important role for employment, it is shown that there is a tendency that a bias … arises in employmentpolicies. Policies expanding private employment tend to be used too little, while policies harming …
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the participation of EU countries and industries in Global Value Chains (GVCs) and their employment structure over the … period 2000-2014. The empirical analysis is based on country/industry level data for 21 EU countries on employment, trade in … partners. We study the employment structure by looking at the shares of managers and manual workers, which reflect the …
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We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …
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This paper considers the impact of taxation policy on market work. On the basis of the evidence, we find that a 10 percentage point rise in the tax wedge will reduce overall labour input provided via the market by around 2 per cent of the population of working age. The tax wedge is the sum of...
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, generating spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county … pairs that share a state border, they find no relationship between minimum wages and employment in the U.S. restaurant …−but within cross-border commuting zones−we find a robust negative relationship between minimum wages and employment. …
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