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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium : technical progress, globalization and European Monetary Union

Franz, Wolfgang - 1999

At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are …

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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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Trade in business services in general equilibrium

Markusen, James R.; Strand, Bridget - 2007

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Does skill-biased technical change diffuse internationally?

Schulte, Patrick - 2015

This paper studies the question whether skill-biased technical change diffuses internationally and that way contributes to the increasing relative skill demand in other countries. So far, the role of skill-biased technology diffusion has hardly been studied empirically. Using new sectoral data...

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Organizational change, new information and communication technologies and the demand for labor in services

Falk, Martin - 2001

Between 1993 and 1995, the majority of German firms in services introduced new organizational practices (OC), in particular total quality management systems, certified ISO 9000, lean administration, flatter hierarchies, delegation of authority and ICT-enabled organizational changes). This paper...

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Diffusion of information technology, internet use and the demand of heterogeneous labor

Falk, Martin - 2001

This paper analyzes the link between the diffusion of information- and communication technology (ICT) and both the skill structure and employment expectations of the different skill categories. The analysis is based on cross-sectional data for 4150 German firms conducted in mid-2000. The...

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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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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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Elasticity optimism

Imbs, Jean; Méjean, Isabelle - 2009

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Organizations and trade

Antràs, Pol; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2008

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