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Trade Liberalization and the Gender Employment Gap in China
Wang, Feicheng; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Zhou, Minghai - 2020
This paper investigates the impact of import liberalization induced labor demand shocks on male and female employment in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, we relate prefecture-level employment by gender to the exposure to tariff reductions on locally...
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Collateral Damage? Labour Market Effects of Competing with China – at Home and Abroad
Cabral, Sónia; Martins, Pedro S.; Pereira dos Santos, João - 2020
The increasing range and quality of China’s exports is a major development internationally with potentially far-reaching effects. In this paper, on top of the direct labour market effects of imports from China studied in previous research, we also measure the indirect effects stemming from...
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Gender-Specific Effects of Import Competition on Individual Fertility Decisions
Piriu, Andreea A. - 2020
This paper studies the effects of import competition from China and Eastern Europe (EE) on the fertility decisions of individuals in German manufacturing. Through the lens of gender, the paper uniquely contributes to the literature by linking import competition to longitudinal individual data to...
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Drivers of skill mismatch among Italian graduates: The role of personality traits
Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2022
It is now well accepted that human capital is a heterogeneous aggregate and that non-cognitive skills are at least as … cognitive and non-cognitive skills. In addition, we find a positive effect of conscientiousness on both overeducation and …
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Educational mismatches, technological change and unemployment: evidence from secondary and tertiary educated workers
Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2020
In this article, we investigate the role of several types of educational mismatch in explaining labour market transitions of workers with secondary and higher education. We focus on transitions from employment to unemployment and on job changes, to assess whether mismatch is a temporary or a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157228
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Trade in Information Technologies and Changes in the Demand for Occupations
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2019
I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in 2001-2014 period. China has become one of the major foreign suppliers of IT and has strongly contributed to the rise...
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Globalization, Technological Change and Skills: Evidence from Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017
affecting employment and skills. The results obtained lend support to a labour–augmenting effect. Moreover, the implemented two …
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Returns to Postgraduate Education in Portugal: Holding on to a Higher Ground?
Almeida, André; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates’ wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
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From Engineer to Taxi Driver? Language Proficiency and the Occupational Skills of Immigrants
Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - 2018
immigrants to Canada were employed in source country occupations that typically require high levels of cognitive skills, but rely … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the … and manual skills, these discrepancies are larger among immigrants with limited language fluency. …
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Under Pressure? Assessing the Roles of Skills and Other Personal Resources for Work-Life Strains
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Ribar, David; Western, Mark - 2018
Labour Dynamics in Australia survey to investigate how personal resources in the form of skills, cognitive abilities, and … account for correlations of the couple’s unobserved characteristics. The SUR estimates indicate that computer skills reduce … work-life strains for mothers, that math skills reduce strains for fathers, and that the personality traits of extraversion …
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