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The impact of robot adoption on global sourcing

Cilekoglu, Akin A.; Moreno, Rosina; Ramos, Raúl - 2021

outsourcing and the lowest in foreign vertical integration. We find that robot adopters fragment their production further by … probability of adoption intensifies the effects on outsourcing and weakens the effects on vertical integration. In contrast to …

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Automation, globalization and vanishing jobs : a labor market sorting view

Faia, Ester; Laffitte, Sébastien; Mayer, Maximilian; … - 2020

offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search frictions hinder … exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …

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Offshoring and the decline of unions

Munch, Jakob Roland; Olney, William W. - 2024

factor. Offshoring jobs abroad may change the composition of domestic firms and employment and thus reduce union density … workers and firms in Denmark (1999-2017), which allows us to measure the exogenous threat of offshoring at the firm-level and … the unionization decisions of individual workers. The findings show that the threat of offshoring reduces unionization …

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Globalization and strategic research investments

Bohnstedt, Anna; Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2010

We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...

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Globalization and labor market outcomes : wage bargaining, search frictions, and firm heterogeneity

Felbermayr, Gabriel (contributor); Prat, Julien (contributor) - 2008

We introduce search unemployment à la Pissarides into Melitz' (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms. We allow wages to be individually or collectively bargained and analytically solve for the equilibrium. We find that the selection effect of trade influences labor market outcomes....

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Does globalisation increase child labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

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Multiproduct firms and scope adjustment in globalization

Qiu, Larry D.; Zhou, Wen - In: Journal of International Economics 91 (2013) 1, pp. 142-153

A model of heterogeneous firms with variety-specific fixed costs is developed and analyzed to study how multiproduct firms respond to globalization. In contrast with most existing models, the analysis demonstrates that more-productive firms may expand their product scope, which in turn may push...

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International R&D subsidy competition, industrial agglomeration and growth

Kondo, Hiroki - In: Journal of International Economics 89 (2013) 1, pp. 233-251

I construct a model with endogenous growth and new economic geography. Using this framework, I consider the outcomes of R&D subsidy competition among countries under different trade costs. When trade costs are higher, less industrialized countries are more eager to attract industries with...

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Review of the recent trends in development economics research: with experience from the federal region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2007

outsourcing activities, the increased flow of direct foreign investment and its heterogeneous regional distribution, the increased … investment ; globalization ; outsourcing ; technology ; capability ; energy ; trade flows ; inequality and poverty ; technology …

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Winners and losers : fragmentation, trade and wages revisited

Geishecker, Ingo (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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