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Multi-product offshoring
Eckel, Carsten; Irlacher, Michael - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289209
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The 'Dynamic' of Job Competition During the ICT Revolution
Chéron, Arnaud - 2012
Our paper seeks to gain insights on the effect of labor market institutions on the evolution of overeducation (job competition), unemployment inequalities and job instability during the polarization process of the labor market fostered by the diffusion of novel technologies. Based on micro data,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755400
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An Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Barriers to Outsourcing
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011
Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs … through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets … oligopolistic context. We find that while an outsourcing tax favors domestic workers by causing firms to switch to a greater use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131419
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Creasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms' international sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003949012
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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce : How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing
Debaere, Peter Marcel - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148078
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J.G; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316994
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Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods
Feler, Leo - 2016
We analyze the impact of trade-induced income shocks on the size of local government, and the provision of public services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing import competition from China experience relative declines in housing prices and business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982120
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Spatial Linkages, Global Shocks, and Local Labor Markets : Theory and Evidence
Adão, Rodrigo - 2019
Abstract How do shocks to economic fundamentals in the world economy affect local labor markets? In a framework with a flexible structure of spatial linkages, we characterize the model-consistent shock exposure of a local market as the exogenous shift in its production revenues and consumption...
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Elasticity optimism
Imbs, Jean; Méjean, Isabelle - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003813483
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Trade and Geography
Redding, Stephen J. - 2020
This paper reviews recent research on geography and trade. One of the key empirical findings over the last decade has been the role of geography in shaping the distributional consequences of trade. One of the major theoretical advances has been the development of quantitative spatial models that...
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