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This paper examines the overall impact of exports while accounting for supply chain linkages on local labor market outcomes in Egypt between 2007 and 2018. We assess the effects not only on directly exporting industries but also on industries indirectly affected by rising export demand....
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largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw … with China contributed to job loss in manufacturing, but also to substantial declines in consumer prices. However, while …
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The German economy exhibits rising service and declining manufacturing employment. But this decline is much sharper in …. They are not driven by manufacturing workers who smoothly switch to services. The observed shifts are entirely due to young … those labor flows. Exploiting variation across industries and regions, we find that globalization did not speed up the …
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Since the early 1990s, some developing countries have experienced a coincidence of rising exports - especially those related to global value chains - and improved labor market outcomes. During 2000-10, rising trade was associated with falling poverty and inequality in many developing countries....
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Real exchange rate movements are important drivers of the reallocation of resources between sectors of the economy. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition and with the technology level. This paper...
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There is increasing evidence that the interaction between shocks and labour market institutions is crucial to understanding the dynamics of employment. In this paper, we show that the inclusion of labour adjustment costs in a trade model affects the impact of exchange rate movements on...
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flexibility at the sector level. This index shows that labour market flexibility has been increasing in all manufacturing sectors …
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the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …
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It is widely believed that globalization increases the volatility of employment and decreases the bargaining power of …
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employment, particularly in manufacturing and among non-college workers. Labor markets susceptible to computerization due to … specialization in routine task-intensive activities experience significant occupational polarization within manufacturing and non-manufacturing … appears to shift from automation of production activities in manufacturing towards computerization of information …
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