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Collateral damage? : labour market effects of competing with China - at home and abroad
Cabral, Sónia; Martins, Pedro S.; Santos, João Pereira dos - 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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815934
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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/10012158785
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How immigrants helped EU labor markets to adjust during the Great Recession
Kahanec, Martin; Guzi, Martin - 2017
responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from various origins, skills and tenure in the country vis-à-vis the natives, and how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110855
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English skills, labour market status and earnings of Turkish women
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysıt - 2019
In this paper, we investigate the effect of the level of English skills on the labour market outcomes of Turkish women … of English skills on labour market status and, conditional on being a wage earner, on monthly earnings and occupational … level of skills in English and earnings, which is only modestly reduced when job-related variables and (especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161952
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Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labour market matching : a comparison between immigrants and natives
Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 2018
The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and...
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Background wage premia, beyond education : firm sorting and unobserved abilities
Bonacini, Luca; Patriarca, Fabrizio; Santoni, Edoardo - 2024
This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational inequality and differences in pay policies among firms. We examine whether the effects of parental background in firm selection contribute to the persistence of income inequality across generations, and particularly how this can...
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313045
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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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