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Manufacturing in high-income countries is on the decline and Denmark is no exception. Manufacturing employment and the … after they switch. By 2007, employment at these former manufacturers equals 8.7 percent of manufacturing employment …, accounting for half the decline in manufacturing employment. We focus on the composition of the workforce as firms make their …
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I document a significant deindustrialization trend in recent decades, that goes considerably beyond the advanced, post …-industrial economies. The hump-shaped relationship between industrialization (measured by employment or output shares) and incomes has …. Advanced economies have lost considerable employment (especially of the low-skill type), but they have done surprisingly well …
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the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and that, through input-output linkages and other general equilibrium …-level approaches to estimate the size of (a) employment losses in directly exposed manufacturing industries, (b) employment effects in …
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Tracking individual workers across jobs after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that tariff cuts trigger worker displacements, but neither exporters nor comparative-advantage sectors absorb trade-displaced labor. On the contrary, exporters separate from significantly more and hire...
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This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period where unions were … banned (1973-1984), then legalized with tripartite bargaining (1984-1991) followed by industry-wide or firm …-specific bargaining (1992-1997). The relationship between wages and employment shifted significantly across these periods as evidenced by …
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We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain … manufacturing employment in the year of its country's manufacturing peak and the subsequent change in total employment, reflecting … manufacturing jobs. Overall, 34% of former manufacturing hubs--defined as cities with an initial manufacturing employment share in …
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development look like when digitech has rendered manufacturing jobless and many services freely traded? Our conclusion is that the … service sector is based on quite different factors than success in manufacturing, development strategies and mindsets may have …
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In this paper, we study the effects of FDI on domestic employment by examining the data of Taiwan's manufacturing … industry. Treating domestic production and overseas production as two distinctive outputs from a joint production function, we … competitiveness. The expanded domestic output leads to more employment at home (output effect). The net effect of FDI on domestic …
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-region variation to explore the link between declining manufacturing employment and labor market outcomes. We find that manufacturing … wages. We also show that declining local manufacturing employment is related to rising local opioid use and deaths. These … decline in manufacturing employment was a substantial cause of the decline in employment rates during the 2000s particularly …
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flexible state, county and industry trends, I find that employment in the manufacturing sector dropped by 1.3% as a result of … time variation of the program as well as variation in industry energy-intensity levels, I examine how employment dynamics … changed in manufacturing industries whose production process requires high levels of energy. After accounting for a variety of …
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