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Robots, reshoring, and the lot of low-skilled workers
Krenz, Astrid; Prettner, Klaus; Strulik, Holger - 2020
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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The impact of minimum wages on employment : evidence from a lower middle-income country
Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2023
find significant effects from minimum wages on employment and monthly wages. However, we find a considerable negative …
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Industrialization under medieval conditions? : global development after COVID-19
Naudé, Wim - 2020
Industrialization is vital for inclusive and sustainable global development. The two engines of industrialization - innovation and trade - are in danger of being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, under conditions increasingly reminiscent of the medieval world. It comes at a time when...
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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 … import competition has kept more females in the workforce, reducing an otherwise growing gender employment gap in the long …
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Education, governance, and trade- and distance-related technology diffusion : accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP gap, and the TFP impact of South America's greater dist...
Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2017
This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology diffusion on TFP in the South, focusing on South America (SA), Mexico, Latin America (LA) and East Asia for the 32-year period preceding the Great Recession (1976-2007) in a new model...
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Green subsidies as strategic trade policy tools
Buccella, Domenico; Fanti, Luciano; Gori, Luca - 2023
In a three-country model in which export countries adopt environmental policies, this note analyses how abatement ("green") subsidy can become a potential strategic trade policy tool. When governments set the optimal policy tool considering their local environmental damages, a rich set of...
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Unemployment transitions and the role of minimum wage : from pre-crisis to crisis and recovery
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Karakitsios, Alexandros - 2021
During the last decade, unemployment in Greece climbed up to 28%, almost quadrupling due to the economic crisis that hit Greece. In the present paper, we examine the determinants of the unemployment dynamics and the impact of the minimum wage on the probability of making a transition into and...
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Does the employment effect of national minimum wage vary by non-employment rate? : a regression discontinuity approach
Xu, Lei; Zhu, Yu - 2022
We examine the impact of increasing minimum wage on employment by exploiting variation in the age-dependent National … Minimum Wage (NMW) in the UK. We extend the Regression Discontinuity model to evaluate the procyclicality of employment effect … and show that previous estimates may be biased due to failure to account for the local non-employment rate. Contrary to …
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The statutory minimum wage in Germany and the labor demand elasticities of low-skilled workers : a regression discontinuity approach with establishment panel data
Kölling, Arnd - 2020 - This version: October 16th, 2020
This study examines the influence of the statutory minimum wage on labor demand elasticities regarding low-skilled workers. For this, a regression discontinuity analysis is conducted using company panel data from 2013 to 2018. In addition, a possible endogeneity of the remuneration for...
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Assessing the distributive effects of minimum wage
Borraz, Fernando; González Pampillón, Nicolás - 2017
workers mainly. However, we also found a negative impact on employment outside the capital city, Montevideo, and observed a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098962