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Global engagement, complex tasks, and the distribution of occupational employment

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; … - 2015

Building on a framework introduced by Chaney and Ossa (2013), we construct a task-based model of the firm's choice of occupational inputs to examine how that choice varies with greater global engagement. We depart from Chaney and Ossa by assuming that more complex tasks are more costly to...

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Globalization and the jobs ladder

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; … - 2018

-select into groups that use different networks to fill vacancies. Our results indicate that although falling trade costs may … result in greater wage inequality, if trade costs are initially high, it can also lead to a wider path up the jobs ladders …

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Globalization, job tasks and the demand for different occupations

Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2019

Globalization has increased in recent decades, resulting in structural changes of production and labor demand. This paper examines how the increased global engagement of firms affects the structure of the workforce. We find that the aggregate distribution of occupations in Sweden has become more...

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Global Engagement and the Occupational Structure of Firms

Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Davidson, Carl; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

Engagement in foreign markets can have an impact on firm organization and on the type of occupations that a firm needs. We examine the effect of globalization on the occupational mixes using detailed Swedish data that cover all firms and a representative sample of the labor force for 1997-2005....

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Importing automation and wage inequality through foreign acquisitions

Gardberg, Malin; Heyman, Fredrik; Tåg, Joacim - 2023

Is technology or trade driving increases in wage inequality? We propose that technology interacts with trade in the …-indifferences methods we find wages to decline by up to 5.2% annually over an eight-year post period. Our results suggest that a trade …

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Winners and losers in the panel stage of the WTO dispute settlement system

Hoekman, Bernard M. (contributor); Horn, Henrik (contributor) - 2008

A significant body of research has sought to examine claims that developing countries are underrepresented as complainants, and/or over-represented as respondents in the WTO dispute settlement system. Most of this literature has focused on their propensity to participate, the idea being that...

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The burden of proof in national treatment disputes and the environment

Horn, Henrik - 2009

This paper examines the role of the burden of proof (BoP) in National Treatment (NT) disputes under trade agreements …. -- National treatment ; burden of proof ; environment ; GATT ; WTO ; trade agreements …

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Burden of proof in environmental disputes in the WTO : legal aspects

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2009

This paper discusses allocation of burden of proof in environmental disputes in the WTO system. Besides laying down the natural principles that (i) the complainant carries the burden to (ii) make a prima facie case that its claim holds, WTO adjudicating bodies have said little of more general...

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The WTO dispute settlement system 1995 - 2010 : some descriptive statistics

Horn, Henrik; Johannesson, Louise; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2011

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In the shadow of the DSU : addressing specific trade concerns in the WTO SPS and TBT Committees

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C.; Wijkström, Erik N. - 2013

extent of trade conflict resolution within the WTO. Both the SPS and TBT Committees address a significant number of 'specific … trade concerns' 􁈺STCs􁈻 that in the overwhelming majority of cases do not become formal disputes. The STCs address … appears as if Committee work on STCs significantly helps defuse potential trade frictions concerning national policies in the …

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