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Learning from Latin America's experience: Europe's failure in the 'Lisbon process'

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2010

leading knowledge-based economy in the world with a Latin American perspective. A realistic and politically useful analysis of … the Lisbon process has to be a Schumpeterian approach. First, we analyze the Lisbon performance of the world economy by …

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Exports, imports and wages: evidence from matched firm-worker-product panels

Martins, Pedro Silva; Opromolla, Luca David - 2009

The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...

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Winners and losers: fragmentation, trade and wages revisited

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2004

Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with industry level information on industries? outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome the potential endogeneity bias as well as other...

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Globalization, Productivity Growth, and Labor Compensation

Dreger, Christian; Fourné, Marius; Holtemöller, Oliver - 2023

We analyse how changes in international trade integration affect productivity and the functional income distribution. To account for endogeneity, we construct a leave-out measure for international trade integration for country-industry pairs using international input-output tables. First, we...

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Globalization and Inequality in Latin America

Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Kovak, Brian K. - 2023

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … that focus on distinct aspects of globalization's relationship to inequality. …

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Trade and Labor Reallocation with Heterogeneous Enforcement of Labor Regulations

Almeida, Rita; Poole, Jennifer P. - 2013

This paper revisits the question of how trade openness affects labor market outcomes in a developing country setting. We explore the fact that plants face varying degrees of exposure to global markets and to the enforcement of labor market regulations, and rely on Brazil's currency crisis in...

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Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?

Böckerman, Petri; Maliranta, Mika - 2013

This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special attention to the role of occupational restructuring as a conveying mechanism. Using linked employer-employee data, we find that offshoring involves job destruction, especially...

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The Impact of Labor Market Reforms on Capital Flows, Wages and Unemployment

Beissinger, Thomas - 2001

The paper contributes to the globalization debate by scrutinizing the international spillover effects which are …

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High Skilled Migration and the Exertion of Effort by the Local Population

Epstein, Gil S.; Kunze, Astrid; Ward, Melanie E. - 2002

The design of optimal immigration policy, particularly in the face of the spiralling demand for highly skilled workers, such as IT workers and engineers, is a topical issue in the policy debate as well as the economic literature. In this paper, we present empirical evidence from firm level data...

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Labour use and its adjustment in Indian manufacturing industries

Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - 2005

, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The analysis is based on a dynamic model …

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