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Trading with China : productivity gains, job losses
Ahn, JaeBin; Duval, Romain - 2017
We analyze the impact on productivity in advanced economies of fast-growing trade with China between the mid-1990s and … economies and, similar to Autor, Dorn, and Hanson (2013), exploit exogenous variation in trade with China in a given country …-sector by instrumenting imports from (exports to) China in a given country-sector with the average imports from (exports to …
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China's Labor Market Performance and Challenges
Ran, Tao - 2003
A more market-oriented labor market has emerged in China in the past twenty years with growing importance of the urban … exists in the rural sector and state-owned enterprises. The main challenge facing China’s labor market in coming years is to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403994
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China’s labor market in the “new normal”
Lam, W. Raphael; Liu, Xiaoguang; Schipke, Alfred - 2015
As China implements reforms under the "new normal," maintaining stability in the labor market is a priority. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374776
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Automation, skills and the future of work : what do workers think?
Mulas Granados, Carlos; Varghese, Richard; Boranova, Vizhdan - 2019
We exploit a survey data set that contains information on how 11,000 workers across advanced and emerging market economies perceive the main forces shaping the future of work. In general, workers feel more positive than negative about automation, especially in emerging markets. We find that...
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The Spanish labor market in a cross-country perspective
Jaumotte, Florence - 2011
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To fire or to hoard? : explaining Japan’s labor market response in the Great Recession
Steinberg, Chad Bennett; Nakane, Masato - 2011
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Comparing the employment-output elasticities of expatriates and nationals in the Gulf Cooperation Council
Behar, Alberto - 2015
We estimate the elasticity of private-sector employment to non-oil GDP in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for GCC nationals and expatriates using a Seemingly Unrelated Error Correction (SUREC) model. Our results indicate that the employment response is lower for nationals, who have an...
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Wage-price dynamics and structural reforms in Japan
Porcellacchia, Davide - 2016
Structural reforms in the liquidity trap need not be deflationary. This paper develops a simple framework to study the role that key characteristics of Japan's labor and product markets-labor-market duality and weak corporate governance-play in generating unfavorable wage-price dynamics. The...
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Macroeconomic impacts of gender inequality and informality in India
Khera, Purva - 2016
This paper examines the macroeconomic interaction between informality and gender inequality in the labor market. A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model is built to study the impact of gender-targeted policies on female labor force participation, female formal employment, gender wage gap,...
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The labor market performance of immigrants in Germany
Beyer, Robert - 2016
The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
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