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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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regional technology exposure on employment and wages. While confirming that effects differ significantly across phases, we find …
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We study the global diffusion of culture through multinationals, focusing on gender norms. Using data on manufacturing firms in China over 2004-2007, we find that foreign affiliates from countries with a more gender-equal culture tend to employ proportionally more women and appoint female...
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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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individuals with temporary employment contracts. This reduction is explained by the decrease in the number of incomers. We also …
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effect on the adopters' employment and on the value-added and average wage, whereas sales and productivity increase after an … initial drop with a net positive effect five years after adoption. Crucially, the employment effect is heterogeneous across … technologies has an overall negative effect on aggregate employment. …
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-linear effects on employment of raising the minimum wage, in particular that marginal disemployment effects become larger when the …-linear disemployment effects are much more apparent for countries with strict Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) and/or with a high …
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