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The issue of the impact of trade on specialisation structures and the effects of trade liberalisation on employment and labour markets has been intensively discussed in the recent literature on trade liberalisation and globalisation. In Europe this debate has gained new momentum in the...
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This study proposes a simple modification to a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) in order to analyze the multiplier effects of a new sector. A different input composition, or technology, of the sector makes a conventional analysis of final-demand injections on existing sectors invalid. We show that...
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We argue that the US trade and industry sector has experienced several unsustainable sectoral processes, including (i) a fall in the trade balance in machinery and equipment and high-tech (HT) industries, (ii) a rise in import multipliers in machinery and equipment and HT industries, (iii) a...
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We assess the sectoral impact of the implementation of a "green" employer of last resort (ELR) program in the US, based on an environmental modification of an extended Kurz's (1985) multiplier framework and data from OECD Input-Output tables. We use these multipliers to estimate the impact of an...
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This paper analyzes labor productivity and the law of decreasing labor content (LDLC) originally formulated by Farjoun and Machover (1983). First, it is shown that the standard measures of labor productivity may be rather misleading, owing to their emphasis on monetary aggregates. Instead, the...
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The general consensus among health economists is that the increasing capability of medical providers-often called medical technology-is responsible for the majority of growth in medical expenditure. And yet, the principle means of understanding medical technology is through the use of total...
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rise in offshoring and low-skilled immigration, and we develop a three-country stochastic growth model to rationalize this … outcome. In the model, the increase in offshoring negatively affects the middle-skill occupations but benefits the high …
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"offshoring", is an important element of such a (global in scale) process of structural change having important implications for … of the labour force. This paper assesses the employment impact of offshoring, in five European countries (Germany, Spain … offshoring industries and types of professional groups affected by offshoring. Results provide a rather heterogeneous picture of …
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In this paper, we investigate the effects of offshoring on workers' job security using matched employer-employee data … from Sweden. For our observed period (1997-2011), while the share of firms engaged in offshoring fell during the period … from around 25% to 22%, offshoring per worker within offshoring firms almost doubled. We make use of this variation to …
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demand effects due to offshoring. Data allow us to distinguish between goods and service offshoring and from which country … Swedish firms source their inputs. Overall, our results give no support to the fears that offshoring of goods or services lead … effects from offshoring lead to increasing relative demand of high-skilled labor, mainly due to service offshoring. …
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