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impact of immigration and different measures of offshoring on the labour demand and demand elasticities of native workers in … important and occupation-specific direct and indirect effects of immigration and offshoring. Both offshoring - particularly … services offshoring - and immigration have negative direct employment effects on all occupations, but native clerks and manual …
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This paper estimates conditional demand models to examine the impact of offshoring, technological change, and migration … occupationspecific effects: offshoring seems to have beneficial employment effects for native craft workers in this set of economies … industries) and managers/professionals in manufacturing. Furthermore, there are important distinctions whether offshoring occurs …
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Using the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey (EAM) between 2000 and 2013, this paper investigates the existence of heterogeneity in the labor demand within the industrial sector. Long run own-price, output and TFP elasticities vary across a variety of dimensions such as regions, sectors and...
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This paper pursues a scenario analysis to shed light on past and potential future labour supply and labour demand dynamics of different skill groups in the six Western Balkan countries (WB6). It differentiates between four educational levels (low, medium-general, medium-VET, and high) and looks...
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This paper analyses job advertisements to identify the particular skills, abilities and characteristics that are in demand on the Austrian labour market. It takes a novel approach and uses information extracted from over 1.5 million job advertisements over the past 15 years from Austria's...
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This paper estimates the effects of NAFTA on labor and wages in Mexico using a local labor-markets approach. While NAFTA offered greater export opportunities to Mexican firms that may raise employment, it also opened the door to increased import competition that may dampen employment gains. This...
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This paper investigates whether the diffusion of tangible IT and CT capital and intangible capital asset types has an impact on labour demand growth and the share of labour income in total income at the industry and country level. The econometric analysis is derived from a Cobb-Douglas...
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The purpose of this paper is to develop a model that integrates inventory and labor decisions. We extend a model of inventory behavior to include a detailed specification of the role of labor input in the production process and of the costs associated with it. In particular, we distinguish...
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