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rates. Using the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) we employ the proposed indicators to shed new light on changes in cost …
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-skill occupations. We estimate the determinants of workers' RTI as a function of technology (computer use), globalization … globalization also important. Technology contributes the most to the differences in RTI among workers in high-skilled occupations …. Globalization (as measured by sector foreign value-added share) increases RTI in poorer countries but reduces RTI in richer …
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Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of … to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …
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globalization on the labor market outcomes of these workers. We find that higher foreign competition leads to more incentive …This paper studies the effect of changes in foreign competition on the incentives faced by U.S. managers in the form of … wage structures, promotion profiles, and job turnover. We use a panel of executives and measure foreign competition as …
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This paper studies the interlinked relationship between globalization and technological upgrading in affecting … with the world market. The empirical analysis is performed at firm level within a dynamic framework using a 2 2 equations …
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This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namely the relationship between … imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment differentials in a sample of low and middle income … countries (LMICs). In doing so, this paper provides a direct measure of technology transfer at the sector level from high income …
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, in contrast, that σ is affected by both globalization and technology, and that different intensities in these drivers … intertwined linkage among globalization, technology and the elasticity of substitution should be taken into account in any policy … substitution between capital and labor is below unity; that it increases along with the degree of globalization; but it decreases …
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We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...
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We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...
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We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world …
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