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Union density in Mexico has been in decline since the 1980s. This paper provides ev- idence on the worker compensation …
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We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation … wages and employment for high-skilled labor but not for low-skilled labor and that tariffs increase the degree of reshoring. …
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possible by ICT, including offshoring, outsourcing, remote work, virtual companies, and platforms. A model illustrates how new … a review of the outsourcing and offshoring literature provides instructive examples of how features of the model will …
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From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers’ unionization. On the other hand, workers of foreign-owned firms have an increased demand for the protection...
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We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations across artificial regions within an ethnicity's...
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We propose a decomposition of the border effect in international trade by controlling for differences in competition in local markets. An extension of the Hotelling (1929) model shows that the availability of local substitutes increases price dispersion and biases the estimation of the border...
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We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...
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Offshoring continues to be an important dimension of firms' internationalization choices. However, offshoring also … develop a heterogeneous firm framework with immigrants and offshoring costs, including technology leakage. In the model … about the characteristics of employees, manufacturing firms and their bilateral offshoring. Our results support the …
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The paper extends Dei (2010) to check the role of time zone difference on offshoring of service tasks when the quality … time. The problem of the service producers is to choose between domestic production and offshoring. Domestic production … employs high-quality skilled labours but the time management is inefficient. On the other hand, offshoring to a non …
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We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their representation among licensed, certified, and unionized workers. We provide evidence of a dual role of labor market institutions, which both screen workers based on unobservable...
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