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decreases. Next we allow for offshoring of unskilled jobs in our model, and we find that, as a result, it becomes more likely … that the fair-wage constraint binds. Offshoring of unskilled jobs always leads to an increase in skilled wage, a decrease … adverse impact of offshoring on unskilled unemployment. The unskilled wage can increase or decrease as a result of offshoring. …
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This paper studies the relationship between immigration and offshoring by examining whether an influx of foreign … of immigrants into a municipality reduces firm-level offshoring at both the extensive and intensive margins. The fact … that immigration and offshoring are substitutes has important policy implications, since restrictions on one may encourage …
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offshoring (integration) and sourcing strategies and (4) location of firms and labor markets. Second, we overview existing …
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offshoring (integration) and sourcing strategies and (4) location of firms and labor markets. Second, we overview existing …
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-level trade flows with firm-specific instrumental variables based on world demand and supply shocks. Both export and offshoring … shocks have a positive effect on wages. Exports increase wages for all occupational categories while offshoring has … elasticity of wages with respect to exports and offshoring is higher than in firms with no collective bargaining. Wage gains …
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decreases. Next we allow for offshoring of unskilled jobs in our model, and we find that, as a result, it becomes more likely … that the fair-wage constraint binds. Offshoring of unskilled jobs always leads to an increase in skilled wage, a decrease … adverse impact of offshoring on unskilled unemployment. The unskilled wage can increase or decrease as a result of offshoring. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070429
-level trade flows with firm-specific instrumental variables based on world demand and supply shocks. Both export and offshoring … shocks have a positive effect on wages. Exports increase wages for all occupational categories while offshoring has … elasticity of wages with respect to exports and offshoring is higher than in firms with no collective bargaining. Wage gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196641
The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid … emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income … countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade …
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We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in … increase in their prices and in German wages. This mechanism is magnified by the low price elasticity of the demand for German … of an extended model which encompasses offshoring to emerging countries and labour market imperfections suggest that (i …
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affiliate wages to parent profits per worker is approximately 0.03, which can explain over 20 percent of the observed variation … in affiliate wages. These results reveal a previously ignored aspect of labor-market rent sharing. They also reveal an … conditions across national borders, and can thereby provide an implicit cross-country risk-sharing mechanism. …
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