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productivity of laggard firms, employment, and intensity of skilled workers. Our findings indicate that African firms are improving …
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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. …We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate …
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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. …We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate …
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the massive size of the migrant influx, no adverse effects on the average wages of men or women or on total employment of … sector, whereas both wage employment and wages of men in the formal sector increase. Our findings, including those on the … men are observed. For women, however, total employment falls -which results mainly from the elimination of part-time jobs …
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This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
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to formal and informal employment. Persistent earnings differentials are used as indicators of limited mobility across … segments of the employed labor force. We find evidence of labor market segmentation between formal and informal employment and … between different categories of informal employment which cannot be fully explained by human capital, physical asset, or …
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gains to a great extent. Therefore, unlike other Asian economies, the overall employment gain from trade has been minimal …After following inward oriented economic policies for nearly four decades, India opened up to international trade in … the early 1990s. Since then, the trade integration of the Indian economy in general and the manufacturing sector in …
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We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration. We exploit the variation in exposure to competition from China, following its accession to the WTO in 2001, across Mexican municipalities and estimate the effect of international...
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in international trade and foreign direct investment, from pioneering country-level studies to nascent firm-level studies …
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We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unempoyment: (i) the frictionless equilibrium view; (ii) the chain reaction theory, or prolonged adjustment view; and (iii) the hysteresis view. While the frictionless view implies a clear...
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