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Trade, technology and labour markets : empirical controversies in the light of the Jones model

Pflüger, Michael - 2001

The deterioration of the income and employment position of unskilled workers in the OECD area since the 1980s is a well-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated by two competing hypotheses, "North-South Trade" or "globalisation" and technological progress....

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The effect of minimum wages on wages and employment : county-level estimates for the United States

Addison, John T. (contributor); … - 2008

given time period. Our evidence does not suggest that minimum wages reduce employment in the overall restaurant … sector appears to exhibit a downward long-term trend in states that have increased their minimum wages relative to states … that have not, thereby predisposing fixed-effects estimates towards finding negative employment effects. -- Minimum wages …

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Labor market effects of trade and FDI : recent advances and research gaps

Pflüger, Michael; Blien, Uwe; Möller, Joachim; … - 2010

This paper pursues three aims. First, we provide a review of current theoretical advances which pertain to the relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under the following (not mutually exclusive) headings: (1) slicing-up the value added chain and the turn to a task-based...

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