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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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Labor supply dynamics, unemployment and human capital investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

In the last decades, the OECD labor markets faced important labor supply changes with the arrival of women and the cohorts of the baby-boom. Using a survey where workers declare their true employment experience, this paper argues that these supply trends imply more inexperienced workers. It then...

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Between-group competition in the labor market and the rising returns to skill : US and France 1964-2000

Wasmer, Etienne - 2001

This paper describes the changes in the composition of the labor force in the last 35 years and quantifies the substitution of low education/high experience workers by low experience/high education workers by using US and French microdata. The consequences of this substitution on the wage...

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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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Higher education levels, firms' outside options and the wage structure

Rosén, Åsa; Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

We analyze the consequences of an increase in the supply of highly educated workers on relative and real wages in a … search model where wages are set by Nash-bargaining. The key insight is that an increase in the supply of highly educated … work force induces firms to invest more in physical capital. Wage inequality and real wages of highly educated workers …

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