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This study provides an empirical investigation of the adjustment process of labour in Indian manufacturing industries …, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The analysis is based on a dynamic model … applied to a panel of 22 two-digit manufacturing industries for the time period of 22 years covering 1980/81 to 2001/02. We …
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This study provides an empirical investigation of the adjustment process of labour in Indian manufacturing industries …, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The analysis is based on a dynamic model … applied to a panel of 22 two-digit manufacturing industries for the time period of 22 years covering 1980/81 to 2001/02. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233871
The German economy exhibits rising service and declining manufacturing employment. But this decline is much sharper in …. They are not driven by manufacturing workers who smoothly switch to services. The observed shifts are entirely due to young … those labor flows. Exploiting variation across industries and regions, we find that globalization did not speed up the …
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administrative dataset on manufacturing workers. We find that the international fragmentation of production negatively affects job … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …
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administrative dataset on manufacturing workers. We find that the international fragmentation of production negatively affects job … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279284
employment, particularly in manufacturing and among non-college workers. Labor markets susceptible to computerization due to … specialization in routine task-intensive activities experience significant occupational polarization within manufacturing and non-manufacturing … appears to shift from automation of production activities in manufacturing towards computerization of information …
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the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …
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manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage …
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This paper investigates the effect of a large economic shock on marriage and fertility choices. I exploit the 1990's trade liberalization in Brazil, which created exogenous negative labor market shocks to regions most exposed to foreign competition. While trade liberalization had a positive...
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Real exchange rate movements are important drivers of the reallocation of resources between sectors of the economy. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition and with the technology level. This paper...
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