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Specialization, outsourcing and wages
Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan - 2005
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the … literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that …, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains arising from an increase in the division of labor, domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267474
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Specialization, Outsourcing and Wages
Munch, Jakob Roland; Skaksen, Jan Rose - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the … literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that …, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains arising from an increase in the division of labor, domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703656
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Who Is Against Immigration? : A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2004
This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261871
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Factor Endowment and Market Size in EU-CEE Trade. Would Human Capital Change the Actual Quality Trade Patterns?
Ferragina, Anna Maria; Pastore, Francesco - 2004
This paper aims to test several hypotheses on the determinants of the quality of trade in cross-country regressions, taking a sample of trade competitors in EU markets. The hypotheses are those underlying two models of VIIT: the so-called neo-H-O model based on factor endowment and an ?economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261889
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Trade Labor, Market Rigidities, and Government-Financed Technological Change
Koeniger, Winfried - 2001
This paper contributes to the debate on the effects of trade versus technological change on wage differentials. We propose an explanation of the stylized facts which is based on interactions between openness and technological change because of labor market institutions and government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262449
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Trade, Technology and Labour Markets: Empirical Controversies in the Light of the Jones Model
Pflüger, Michael - 2001
The deterioration of the income and employment position of unskilled workers in the OECD area since the 1980s is a well-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated by two competing hypotheses, "North-South Trade" or "globalisation" and technological progress....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262529
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How do very open economies absorb large immigration flows? recent evidence from Spanish regions
González Luna, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - 2008
In recent years, Spain has received unprecedented immigration flows. Between 2001 and 2006 the fraction of the population born abroad more than doubled, increasing from 4.8% to 10.8%. For Spanish provinces with above-median inflows (relative to population), immigration increased the high school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268697
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North-South trade liberalization and returns to skill in the south: the case of Mexico
Hazarika, Gautam; Otero, Rafael - 2008
This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269122
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International specialization and the return to capital
Batista, Cátia; Potin, Jacques - 2010
How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and developed countries over the period 1976-2000. We confirm the Heckscher-Ohlin prediction that, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271800
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How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004
One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262075