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Offshoring and Labor Markets
Hummels, David - 2016
We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … with the measurement of offshoring, focusing on the use of imported inputs that could have been produced by the importing … firm. We overview key theories related to offshoring and its labor market effects and survey three waves of the literature …
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Unemployment in the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States
Hoffmann, Florian - 2014
This paper investigates the potential reasons for the surprisingly different labor market performance of the United States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates did not change substantially in Germany, increased and...
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Service Offshoring and Productivity : Evidence from the United States
Amiti, Mary - 2006
paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000. It finds … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of … labor productivity growth during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the …
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Foreign Production by U.S. Firms and Parent Firm Employment
Lipsey, Robert E. - 1999
Despite the persistent fears that production abroad by U.S. multinationals reduces employment at home, there has, in fact, been almost no aggregate shift of production or employment to foreign countries. Some continuing shifts to foreign locations by U.S. manufacturing firms have been largely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471427
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Offshoring and Unemployment
Mitra, Devashish - 2007
In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we … offshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (cost reducing) effect of offshoring. If the … search cost is identical in the two sectors, or even if the search cost is higher in the sector which experiences offshoring …
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The Labor Market Effects of Offshoring by U.S. Multinational Firms : Evidence from Changes in Global Tax Policies
Kovak, Brian K. - 2017
Estimating the causal effect of offshoring on domestic employment is difficult because of the inherent simultaneity of …. Underlying these results is substantial heterogeneity based on offshoring margin and firm organizational structure. For example …
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Time-Series Evidence of the Effect of the Minimum Wage on Youth Employment and Unemployment
Brown, Charles - 1981
While previous time series studies have quite consistently found that the minimum wage reduces teenage employment, the extent of this reduction is much less certain. Moreover, because few previous studies report results of more than one specification, the causes of differences in estimated...
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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs : Evidence from the United States Using a Bunching Estimator
Cengiz, Doruk - 2019
We propose a novel method that infers the employment effect of a minimum wage increase by comparing the number of excess jobs paying at or slightly above the new minimum wage to the missing jobs paying below it. To implement our approach, we estimate the effect of the minimum wage on the...
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Can Unemployment Insurance Spur Entrepreneurial Activity?
Hombert, Johan - 2014
We study a large-scale French reform that provided generous downside insurance for unemployed individuals starting a business. We study whether this reform affects the composition of people who are drawn into entrepreneurship. New firms started in response to the reform are, on average, smaller,...
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Merger Guidelines for the Labor Market
Berger, David; Hasenzagl, Thomas; Herkenhoff, Kyle; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
While the labor market implications of mergers have been historically ignored as "out of market" effects, recent actions by the Department of Justice (DOJ) place buyer market power (i.e., monopsony) at the forefront of antitrust policy. We develop a theory of multi-plant ownership and monopsony...
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