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Offshoring domestic jobs
Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo; Wrona, Jens - 2013
) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring … among entrepreneurs is higher with offshoring than in autarky. All results hold in a model extension with firm-level rent …
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International trade, union wage premia, and welfare in general equilibrium
Kreickemeier, Udo; Meland, Frode - 2011
We study how two distinct forms of globalisation, trade cost reductions and opening up of trade in previously shielded sectors, affect sector-specific wages, employment levels and aggregate welfare in a two-country model of general oligopolistic equilibrium (GOLE) with partly unionised labour...
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Why foreign ownership may be good for you
Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2011
We develop a general equilibrium two-country model with heterogeneous producers and rent sharing at the firm level due to fairness preferences of workers. We identify two sources of a multinational wage premium. On the one hand, there is a pure composition effect because multinational firms are...
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Trade and the environment : the role of firm heterogeneity
Kreickemeier, Udo; Richter, Philipp M. - 2012
This paper derives a new effect of trade liberalisation on the quality of the environment. We show that in the presence of heterogeneous firms the aggregate volume of emissions is influenced not only by the long-established scale effect, but also by a reallocation effect resulting from an...
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Trade, wages, and profits
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2011
This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences. In the underlying theoretical framework, such preferences lead to a link between a firm's operating profits on the one hand and wages of workers employed by this firm on the...
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