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Global Engagement, Complex Tasks, and the Distribution of Occupational Employment
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2015
Building on a framework introduced by Chaney and Ossa (2013), we construct a task-based model of the firm's choice of occupational inputs to examine how that choice varies with greater global engagement. We depart from Chaney and Ossa by assuming that more complex tasks are more costly to...
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The Internal and External Effects of Offshoring on Job Security
El-Sahli, Zouheir; Gullstrand, Joakim; Olofsdotter, Karin - 2017
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...
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Globalization, Recruitments and Job Mobility
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2020
might lead to higher job-to-job mobility if increased globalization increases both the share of exporters as well as the …
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Gender-targeted transfers by default? Evidence from a child allowance reform in Sweden
Lindahl, Erica; Rosenqvist, Olof; Selin, Håkan - 2023
We exploit a sharp birthday discontinuity in a large and universal Swedish cash transfer program, creating plausibly exogenous variation in the default disbursement option, while holding entitlements and other financial incentives constant. When the cash transfer is paid out to the mother by...
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Television and divorce: Evidence from Brazilian Novelas
Chong, Alberto; La Ferrara, Eliana - 2009
-varying characteristics, the paper finds that the share of women who are separated or divorced increases significantly after the Globo signal …
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Gendered aspects of globalization
Sen, Sunanda - 2010
We need to go beyond the accepted notions relating to the role of women in the economy and society, especially in terms … of what is recognized in mainstream theory and policy as work done by women. Thus, the traditional gender roles, with the … man as the breadwinner and the woman in the role of housekeeper, do not explain the contribution of women in general. We …
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The clash of rural-urban migrants and real estate investors on Phnom Penh's housing market: Prospects for garment workers
Buttmann, Vera - 2017
Housing markets of large cities around the world, particularly in so-called developing and emerging countries, are currently experiencing a clash: On the one hand, large numbers of labour migrants arrive from rural areas and need cheap rental housing. On the other hand, international real estate...
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Productivity gap between tradable and non-tradable industries and duality in higher education
Brezis, Elise S.; Brand, Gilad - 2017
Over the last decades, productivity in the tradable sector rose substantially, while in the non-tradable sector, output per worker has remained the same, despite a similar increase in human capital in both sectors. This paper emphasizes that duality in higher education as well as heterogeneous...
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Elitism in higher education and inequality: Why are the Nordic countries so special?
Brezis, Elise S. - 2018
This paper shows that countries with high levels of "elitism" in higher-education are the countries displaying high levels of inequality. In other words, a higher level of "elitism", i.e., large gap in quality of universities, and tight selection in top universities leads to a wider gap in wages...
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High-skilled labour mobility in an era of protectionism: Foreign startups and India
Mikherjee, Arpita; Kapoor, Avantika; Parashar, Angana - 2018
Realisation that foreign startups have the potential to add new and innovative products and services to the market, bring in investment and create more jobs compared to traditional firms, a number of countries are providing fiscal and non-fiscal incentives, including startup visas, to attract...
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