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Manufacturing jobs and inequality : why is the U.S. experience different?
Novta, Natalija; Pugacheva, Evgenia - 2019
We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in …
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Countercyclical fiscal policy and gender employment gap : evidence from the G-7 countries
Akitoby, Bernardin; Honda, Jiro; Miyamoto, Hiroaki - 2019
Would countercyclical fiscal policy during recessions improve or worsen the gender employment gap? We give an answer to … this question by exploring the state-dependent impact of fiscal spending shocks on employment by gender in the G-7 … would, on average, lift female employment by 1 percent, while increasing male employment by 0.6 percent. Consequently such a …
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Is technology widening the gender gap? : automation and the future of female employment
Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla-Norris, Era; Khalid, Salma - 2019
Using individual level data on task composition at work for 30 advanced and emerging economies, we find that women, on average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we relate data on task composition at work to occupation...
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Skills, Wages, and Employment in East and West Germany
Funke, Michael - 1995
estimate employment for three skill categories of blue collar workers. Employment elasticities are uniformly higher in the east …
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Make in India : which exports can drive the next wave of growth?
Anand, Rahul; Kochhar, Kalpana; Mishra, Saurabh - 2015
Structural transformation depends not only on how much countries export but also on what they export and with whom they trade. This paper breaks new ground in analyzing India's exports by the technological content, quality, sophistication, and complexity of the export basket. We identify five...
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The effect of tariffs in global value chains
Eugster, Johannes; Jaumotte, Florence; MacDonald, Margaux; … - 2022
tariffs higher up and further down in the value chain depress value added, employment, labor productivity and total factor … of economic activity being diverted, id est positive effects on value added and employment from tariffs imposed on …
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Dollar invoicing, global value chains, and the business cycle dynamics of international trade
Cook, David; Patel, Nikhil - 2022
Recent literature has highlighted that international trade is mostly priced in a few key vehicle currencies and is increasingly dominated by intermediate goods and global value chains (GVCs). Taking these features into account, this paper reexamines the relationship between monetary policy,...
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Trade and inclusive growth
Bacchetta, Marc; Cerra, Valerie; Piermartini, Roberta; … - 2021
This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade and inclusive growth. It examines claims that the rise in inequality in many countries can be attributed to the concurrent rise in trade competition, especially from EMEs like China, spurring trade tensions and...
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Global value chains and productivity : micro evidence from Estonia
Banh, Hang T.; Wingender, Philippe; Gueye, Cheikh - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented collapse in global economic activity and trade. The crisis has also highlighted the role played by global value chains (GVC), with countries facing shortages of components vital to everything from health systems to everyday household goods....
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The inflexible structure of global supply chains
Bayoumi, Tamim A.; Barkema, Jelle; Cerdeiro, Diego A. - 2019
The rise of global supply chains has had profound effects on individual economies and the global trading system, thereby complicating standard macroeconomic analyses. For many of the new and challenging questions brought about by this phenomenon, such as its impact on the global business cycle...
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