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Hit by the silk road : how wage coordination in Europe mitigates the China shock
Barth, Erling; Finseraas, Henning; Kjelsrud, Anders; … - 2020
economy. We test this theory by exploring within-country variation in exposure to competition from China in 13 European … exposure from China experienced a marked fall in employment, while countries with wage-coordination experienced no such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221759
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Gender wage-productivity differentials and global integration in China
Dammert, Ana C.; Ural Marchand, Beyza; Wan, Chi - 2013
-exporting firms. -- China ; gender wage discrimination ; globalization ; firm ownership … to the relative marginal productivity levels of workers. This paper investigates the role of globalization on the … structure and evolution of gender differentials in China by simultaneously estimating demand-side wage and productivity outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696894
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The rise of China's global middle class in international perspective
Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2021
global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective …. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has been catching up with that in developed countries. By 2018 China …'s global middle class constituted 25 percent of China's population; in absolute size it was nearly double the size of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588683
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Importing political polarization? : the electoral consequences of rising trade exposure
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2020
to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315433
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Gender-targeted job ads in the recruitment process : evidence from China
Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Shen, Kailing; Zhang, Shuo - 2018
We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board. We find that 95 percent of callbacks to gendered jobs are of the requested gender; worker self-selection ("compliance" with employers' requests) and employer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955789
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Time is on my side : relational contracts and aggregate welfare
Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Plüger, Michael - 2018
This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model which establishes a link between the patience of economic agents and the well-being of nations. We show that firms in long-term oriented countries can mitigate hold-up inefficiencies by engaging with their suppliers in relational contracting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810338
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Construction contracts (or : "how to get the right building at the right price?")
Chakravarty, Surajeet (contributor);  … - 2006
Most contracts that individuals enter into are not written from scratch; rather, they depend upon forms and terms that have been successful in the past. In this paper, we study the structure of form construction contracts published by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323165
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An analysis of the impact of affirmative action programs on self-employment in the construction industry
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor);  … - 2005
The main findings of this paper are that despite the existence of various affirmative action programs designed to improve the position of women and minorities in public construction, little has changed in the last twenty five years. We present evidence showing that where race conscious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003287790
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High-school dropouts and transitory labor market shocks : the case of the spanish housing boom
Aparicio, Ainhoa - 2010
This paper addresses the implications of transitory changes in labor market conditions for low versus high educated workers on the decision to acquire education. To identify this effect, I use the improvement in the labor market prospects of low educated workers motivated by the increases in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810536
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House prices and employment reallocation : international evidence
Bover, Olympia (contributor); Jimeno, Juan F. (contributor) - 2007
Over the last decade house prices increased remarkably in many countries. However, while in several countries there was an employment boom in the construction sector, in others the share of employment in this sector did not significantly change. In this paper we estimate a model of labor demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578882