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Worker Mobility in a Global Labor Market : Evidence from the United Arab Emirates

Naidu, Suresh - 2014

In 2011, a reform in the United Arab Emirates allowed any employer to renew a migrant's visa upon contract expiration without written permission from the initial employer. We find that the reform increased incumbent migrants' earnings and firm retention of these workers. This occurs despite an...

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Digitization and the Contract Labor Market : A Research Agenda

Agrawal, Ajay - 2013

Online contract labor globalizes traditionally local labor markets, with platforms that enable employers, most of whom are in high-income countries, to more easily outsource tasks to contractors, primarily located in low-income countries. This market is growing rapidly; we provide descriptive...

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Dynamic Globalization and Its Potentially Alarming Prospects for Low-Wage Workers

Fehr, Hans - 2008

The model predicts a near doubling of the ratio of high- to low-skilled wages over the century. Increasing wage inequality arises from a traditional source -- a rising worldwide relative supply of unskilled labor, reflecting Chinese and Indian productivity improvements. But China's and India's...

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Information and Globalization : Wage Co-Movements, Labor Demand Elasticity, and Conventional Trade Liberalization

Rauch, James E. - 2000

We model home country familiarity with business opportunities in a foreign country as a parameter in a matching process between domestic and foreign firms. We show that as familiarity increases the effect of relative national labor supplies on relative national wages declines, the elasticity of...

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The Internationalization of the U.S. Labor Market

Abowd, John M. - 1990

During the 1970s and 1980s immigration, trade, and foreign investment became increasingly important in the U.S. labor market. The number of legal and illegal immigrants to the country increased, altering the size and composition of the work force and substantially raising the immigrant share of...

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Does Globalization of the Scientific/Engineering Workforce Threaten U.S. Economic Leadership?

Freeman, Richard B. - 2005

(1) The U.S. share of the world's science and engineering graduates is declining rapidly as European and Asian universities, particularly from China, have increased S&E degrees while US degree production has stagnated

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Trade Wars : The Exaggerated Impact of Trade in Economic Debate

Freeman, Richard B. - 2003

The rules governing trade and capital flows have been at the center of controversy as globalization has proceeded. One … market. Changes in trade policy have had modest impacts on labour market. Other aspects of globalization -- immigration …

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Firm Trade Exposure, Labor Market Competition, and the Worker Incidence of Trade Shocks

Carballo, Jeronimo; Mansfield, Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This paper examines how the composition of firm exposure and competition among imperfectly substitutable workers mediate the earnings, welfare, and unemployment incidence of changes in the international trade environment. We merge LEHD job match records with firm-level import and export records...

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Unemployment in the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States

Hoffmann, Florian - 2014

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 remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …

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What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?

Burda, Michael C. - 2011

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …

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