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Offshoring and relative labor demand from a task perspective
Hogrefe, Jan - 2013
This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A … novel theoretical mechanism, based on sorting of heterogeneous workers into occupations with task dependent offshoring cost …, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to offshoring in a panel estimation using German data for 1998-2007. It is …
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Multi-product offshoring
Eckel, Carsten; Irlacher, Michael - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289209
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Creasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms' international sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010
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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements
Zwick, Thomas - 1999
This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric …
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
mark-up stronger than in Germany in the wake of skill-biased technological change. The reason is that the unskilled … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481124
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Latent Exports : Almost Ideal Gravity and Zeros
Anderson, James E. - 2020
Almost Ideal gravity associates zero trade flows with variable and fixed trade cost variation in a flexible demand system. Latent trade shares between non-partners are inferred from the Tobit estimator applied to trade among 75 countries and 25 sectors in 2006. Latent Trade Bias (LTB) is the...
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Poultry in Motion : A Study of International Trade Finance Practices
Antràs, Pol - 2011
This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how and why these arrangements affect trade. Using detailed transaction level data from a U.S. based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, it begins by describing broad...
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