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determines a bias in the relative employment of skilled versus unskilled workers. Using a balanced panel of firm-based data …, although weak, skill bias effect of production offshoring on the labor-force composition of Italian manufacturing: in … skill ratio, we find that the skill bias effect is primarily driven by a fall in the employment of production workers, while …
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that only export abroad. Second, firms that engage in final goods off-shoring are more productive than firms that engage in … inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy …
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Nearly all the macroeconomic literature on environmental policies deals with taxes and tradable permits. A policy instrument that still needs to be looked at is a switch in government expenditure away from environmentally-damaging goods, in particular fossil fuels, and toward resource- and...
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associated with it. In particular, we distinguish between employment, hours and effort per worker, and allow for adjustment costs … associated with employment changes. We assume that the requirement function for effective hours has a general trans …-logarithmic form, and derive an estimable system of Euler equations for inventories and employment with implied cross …
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policies to include employment and income distribution effects, reduced air pollution and the achievement of environmental and …
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the potential to substantially transform labor markets and employment, especially in countries with a low level of …
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This paper aims at giving first insights into the interconnectedness of violent conflict, employment and …
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This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...
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This article investigates to what extent innovation has contributed to the development of employment growth and … a gross employment growth which has been larger in German manufacturing than in other European countries. This effect is … market shares. Taking the substitution of existing with new products into account, it turns out the net employment growth due …
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We use data on wages and rents in different U.S. cities to assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of city residents. We show that US-born citizens living in metropolitan areas where the share of foreign-born...
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