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economy. We test this theory by exploring within-country variation in exposure to competition from China in 13 European … exposure from China experienced a marked fall in employment, while countries with wage-coordination experienced no such …
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The increased range and quality of China's exports is a major ongoing development in the international economy with … potentially far-reaching effects. In this paper, on top of the direct effects of increased imports from China studied in previous … and employment are significantly negatively affected by China's competition, but only through the indirect 'market …
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in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, we relate prefecture-level employment …
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China. We employ a local labour market approach to construct a regional measure of exposure to import tariffs by exploiting …
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competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising …
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While there is a strong overlap between membership in employers' associations and collective bargaining coverage, the overlap is far from being perfect. Using unique firm-level data from Germany, this study estimates the determinants of the membership in employers' associations and the coverage...
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This chapter reviews research on the linkages between corporate globalization and worker representation. Studies have identified various transmission channels through which the activities of foreign multinational companies (MNCs) affect host-country institutions of union and non-union...
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From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers' unionization. On the other hand, workers of foreign-owned firms have an increased demand for the protection...
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We use Chinese firm-level data from the World Bank Investment Climate Survey to examine the link between importing intermediates and intra-firm wage inequality. Our results show that intermediate input importers not only have a significant wage premium but also have a greater intra-firm wage...
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This paper studies the relationship between immigration and offshoring by examining whether an influx of foreign workers reduces the need for firms to relocate jobs abroad. We exploit a Danish quasi-natural experiment in which immigrants were randomly allocated to municipalities using a refugee...
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