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by providing new evidence on employment embodied in value-added trade flows. Linking jobs data to the Trade in Value …-Added (TiVA) indicators first highlights that a large share of employment in OECD and key partner countries relies on consumption …. Within GVCs, there is also a shift from employment in core manufacturing activities to employment in service support …
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explaining employment levels of routine and non-routine occupations. The analysis encompasses 28 OECD countries over the period …-level Trade in Value Added (TiVA) indicators of offshoring and domestic outsourcing. The results suggest that employment in all …
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workers are affected the most, how employment and wages adjust to increased services trade, and the impact of policy settings … associated positively with firm employment in advanced and emerging market economies, although the relationship is more uncertain … for the latter group of countries. Firm’s overall wage responses to services trade are on average positive as well, but …
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This paper provides evidence of the links between Global Value Chains (GVCs) and labour market outcomes, focusing on developing economies. The literature generally indicates that firms with international linkages—which we use here as a proxy for GVC involvement—tend to employ more workers,...
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Services trade has become increasingly important, yet its impact on employment has been understudied at present. This … employment and wages in the United Kingdom. It finds that firms can benefit from services trade, through increased employment … suggest that services imports enhance female wages more than those of males, thereby contributing to narrow the gender wage …
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This work proposes a novel measure of the routine content of occupations, called the Routine Intensity Indicator (RII), built on data from the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) survey. The RII uses information about the extent to which workers can...
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This paper provides a review of the available literature on global value chains (GVCs) and employment markets in … skilled workers, but also greater wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers. The evidence on outcomes is more …
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has contributed to the evolution of employment in the country. This investigation has been undertaken in two ways. First …, the total employment variation was decomposed in order to identify the contribution of the final demand components … the labour content of trade, we estimated the volume of direct employment associated with exports, according to the skill …
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