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Falling trade costs, heterogeneous firms and industry dynamics
Bernard, Andrew Barnes; Jensen, J. Bradford; Schott, … - 2003
This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292937
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Has technology hurt less skilled workers? An econometric survey of the effects of technical change on the structure of pay and jobs
Chennells, Lucy; Reenen, John Van - 1999
computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330338
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Why has in-work poverty risen in Britain?
Bourquin, Pascale; Cribb, Jonathan; Waters, Tom; Xu, Xiaowei - 2019
An increasing proportion of people towards the bottom of the UK's income distribution are in a household where someone is in paid work. Working households comprised 37% of those below the official poverty line in 1994-95 and 58% in 2017-18. Much of that increase is due to trends that seem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265310
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Jobs and job quality between the eve of the Great Recession and the eve of COVID-19
Bourquin, Pascale; Waters, Tom - 2020
In 2019, the employment rate among 25- to 64-year-olds in the UK reached 80% - the highest on record, and considerably … certain policies and compositional changes on the employment rate. We also investigate how job 'quality' - in both financial … and non-financial terms - has changed. We find that almost all demographic groups and regions saw a rise in employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265349
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Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages
Blundell, Richard W.; Lopez, Hugo; Ziliak, James P. - 2023
model is used to consistently recover the full distribution of wages accounting for systematic differences in employment …
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