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Trade shocks and social mobility : the intergenerational effect of import competition in Brazil

César, Andrés; Ciaschi, Matías; Falcone, Guillermo; … - 2023

survey data with retrospective information on parental employment, we study the causal effect of increased Chinese import …

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Task dependence of U.S. service offshoring patterns

Püschel, Julia - 2012

This work offers new insights into the determinants of service offshoring across countries and across service … offshoring costs for all services, while the effects of other characteristics depend on the coordination requirements of the … respective service industry. The results from a zero-inflated Poisson pseudomaximum likelihood estimation indicate that the …

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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply

Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020

-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …

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The impact of new technologies on the demand for heterogenous labour : empirical evidence from the German business-related services sector

Kaiser, Ulrich - 1998

The impact of technology on the demand for heterogeneous labor is controversely discussed throughout the literature. New technology which is said to favor high skilled labor and to substitute low skilled labor is often considered as the main reason for the decline in relative demand for low...

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IT capital, job content and educational attainment

Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2003

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Trade shocks, labor markets and elections in the first globalization

Bräuer, Richard; Hungerland, Wolf-Fabian; Kersting, Felix - 2021

This paper studies the economic and political effects of a large trade shock in agriculture – the grain invasion from the Americas – in Prussia during the first globalization (1871-1913). We show that this shock accelerated the structural change in the Prussian economy through migration of...

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Jobs. Jobs? Jobs! : Orientierungshilfen für den Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 2000

Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit genießt oberste wirtschaftspolitische Priorität - dieser Feststellung wird kaum jemand widersprechen wollen. Eher scheiden sich die Geister an der Frage nach dem "wirklichen" quantitativen Ausmaß der Unterbeschäftigung, ihren Ursachen und welche...

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Offshoring and the polarisation of the demand for capital

Bursian, Dirk; Nagengast, Arne J. - 2018

While there is a consensus in the literature that offshoring has a polarising effect on the skill structure of labour … demand, little is known about its impact on the capital side. In this paper, we analyse the effect of offshoring on the …, we document that offshoring reduces the relative demand for non-ICT capital, thereby also polarising the demand for …

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Robotizing to compete? : firm-level evidence

Bastos, Paulo; Flach, Lisandra; Keller, Klaus - 2023

We investigate the impact of product market competition on firms’ automation investments. We use a rich combination of micro-data on Portuguese exporters and exploit a novel source of variation in the degree of competition they face – a tariff liberalization between the European Union and...

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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees

Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J. M. - 2012

We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...

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