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Regulating manufacturing FDI : local labor market responses to a protectionist policy in Indonesia

Gehrke, Esther; Genthner, Robert; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2024

We analyze the effect of rising protectionism towards foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic employment … manufacturing sector to these investment restrictions. Rising FDI restrictions caused employment gains at the local level …

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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany

Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2013

It is widely believed that globalization increases the volatility of employment and decreases the bargaining power of workers. One mechanism explaining this relationship is given by the long-standing Hicks-Marshall laws of derived demand: with international trade increasing competition and...

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The impact of globalization and technology transfer on manufacturing employment and skills in Ethiopia

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013

Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role … played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …

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Trade-induced adoption of new work

Kim, Gueyon - 2022

I study the trade-induced restructuring process using a novel measure of new work that captures the firm's demand for jobs employing new knowledge, skills, and technologies. To construct measures of new work, I identify newly emerged job titles using word embedding models. Using both regional...

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Threshold values in German labor law and job dynamics in small firms : the case of the disability law

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Kölling, Arnd - 2001

According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled empoyees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...

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The changing situation of loabor market entrants in Germany : a long-run analysis of wages and occupational patterns

Reinhold, Mario; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2016

Concurrently with a steady increase of the supply of college educated workers, recent evidence for the U.S. indicated a decline in the demand for and the real wages of this group after 2000. We investigate empirically, whether there has been a similar trend in Germany. Based on comprehensive,...

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Domestic multinationals, foreign affiliates, and labour demand elasticities

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - 2012

Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in the wage elasticity of labour demand persists...

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

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

relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under the following (not mutually exclusive) headings: (1) slicing … empirical work covering the labor market effects of trade and FDI. Finally, we identify and summarize the existing research gaps … and thereby we highlight promising avenues for future research. -- offshoring ; outsourcing ; FDI ; trade ; labor markets …

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Margins of multinational labor substitution

Muendler, Marc-Andreas (contributor); … - 2006

Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE) expands into foreign locations, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates across locations. We derive conditions for parametric and nonparametric...

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Employment effects of payroll taxes : an empirical test for Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Bauer, Thomas K. - 1998

This study tests to what degree the incidence of payroll taxes in Germany is on employment and whether in consequence payroll taxes, in particular social insurance contributions, are the culprit behind the growing unemployment problem. Using industry level data for 18 years (1977-1994) we...

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