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Where have all tech layoffs gone? : a model of two worker types with outsourcing
Marjit, Sugata; Das, Gouranga Gopal - 2023
The flourishing of IT-sector and IT-enabled services has led to emergence of different activities by leaps and bounds thanks to proliferation of Virtual plattorm-based transactions, and E-commerce. However, massive layoffs started in 2022, as all tech giants encountered revenue declines amidst...
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Trade liberalization and the gender employment gap in China
Wang, Feicheng; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Zhou, Minghai - 2020
by gender to the exposure to tariff reductions on locally imported products. Our empirical results show that increasing … channels through which tariff reductions differentially affect males and females, we find that trade-induced competitive …
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Finance, trade, man and machines : a new-Ricardian Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model
Marjit, Sugata; Das, Gouranga Gopal - 2023 - This revised draft, August 2022
This paper attempts to build up a Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of production and trade where capital is introduced outside the production process as a financial capital or credit as per the classical Ricardian wage fund framework. Stock of credit or financial capital as past savings, finances...
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Monopolistic competition, optimum product diversity, and international trade : the role of factor endowment and factor intensities
Marjit, Sugata; Mandal, Biswajit - 2021 - This draft August, 2021
In this paper we revisit the influential theory of monopolistic competition and optimum product variety as developed by Dixit and Stiglitz (1977) with applications in international trade by Krugman (1979,1980), by modeling fixed and variable costs of production in terms of underlying use of...
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Wage differences according to workers' origin : the role of working more upstream in GVCs
Fays, Valentine; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François - 2021
This paper is the first to investigate the role of firm-level upstreamness (i.e. the number of steps before the production of a firm meets final demand) in explaining wage differences according to workers' origin. Using unique linked employer-employee data relative to the Belgian manufacturing...
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International trade and labor market integration of immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
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Robots, reshoring, and the lot of low-skilled workers
Krenz, Astrid; Prettner, Klaus; Strulik, Holger - 2020
We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation. Our theory suggests that increasing productivity in automation leads to a relocation of previously offshored production back to the home economy but without improving...
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Reformatory policies and factor prices in a developing economy with informal sector
Mandal, Biswajit; Ghosh, Sujata - 2019
. Considering this concern, this paper attempts to check various effects of reformatory policies such as labor market reform, tariff …. It has been found that the implications of labor market reform and tariff liberalization for factor prices and wage … supposed to harm workers, wage disparity gets ameliorated whereas tariff reform leads to worsening of it. …
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Trade shocks, job insecurity and individual health
Piriu, Andreea Alexandra - 2021
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, future health care expenditure is likely the discriminant between nations who will build resilience and those who will not. Despite costly labor-market adjustments due to increased international trade over the last two decades, the health effects of trade...
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Trade networks, heroin markets, and the labor market outcomes of Vietnam veterans
Lonsky, Jakub; Ruiz, Isabel; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2021
The role of ethnic immigrant networks in facilitating international trade is a well-established phenomenon in the literature. However, it is less clear whether this relationship extends to illegal trade and unauthorized immigrants. In this paper, we tackle this question by focusing on the case...
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