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The manufacturing industry in industrialised countries is often argued to servicify - use and sell more services - but knowledge is poor. We examine the phenomenon using detailed and com-prehensive micro level data at both the firm and enterprise group level for Sweden (1997-2006). We find that...
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In the OECD countries, the decline of manufacturing and its employment implications have long been matters of concern …
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Offshoring is an important aspect of firms' internationalization. However, offshoring comes at a cost, especially where … information or trust is lacking. Immigrant employees could reduce such offshoring costs through their knowledge of their former …-2007. Our results support the hypothesis that immigrant employees spur offshoring activities by firms through lower offshoring …
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, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
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contribution to total employment and gross domestic product (GDP) and compare them to private domiciled non-family firms in terms …, contributing to over one-third of all employment and GDP. Family firms are common across industries and sizes, ranging from the … heterogeneity. We furthermore find that they are smaller than private non-family firms in employment and sales and carry higher …
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, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
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losses in terms of employment and earnings are matched only by the losses in terms of real wealth. In many ways, however …
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The recent shift to remote work raised the amenity value of employment. As compensation adjusts to share the amenity …
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I find here that the early and mid-aughts (2001 to 2007) witnessed both exploding debt and a consequent 'middle-class squeeze.' Median wealth grew briskly in the late 1990s. It grew even faster in the aughts, while the inequality of net worth was up slightly. Indebtedness, which fell...
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This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend reversed in the 1990s, with newcomers doing as well in...
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