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occupationspecific effects: offshoring seems to have beneficial employment effects for native craft workers in this set of economies … the exception of manual workers), while robotisation in manufacturing showed strongly negative impacts on the employment …
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services offshoring - and immigration have negative direct employment effects on all occupations, but native clerks and manual … negative employment effect than does immigration. Our results also identify an important (labour demand) elasticity-channel of …
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Using establishment-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, we assess the market power of exporting firms …, we construct exchange rate-driven shocks to the marginal revenue product of individual firms. By examining firms …' employment and wage responses, we estimate the inverse elasticity of the labor supply they face-a direct indicator of labor …
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importance of GVCs in India's exports, by devoting an entire chapter, suggesting ways to integrate Indian firms into GVCs. With … time, some existing jobs may be altered, reduced or eliminated. Therefore, besides assessing the extent of employment … study looks at the trends in domestic and foreign value-added share, and employment and skill-composition of jobs supported …
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reduces the need for firms to relocate jobs abroad. We exploit a Danish quasi-natural experiment in which immigrants were … covering the universe of workers and firms over the period 1995-2011. Our findings show that an exogenous influx of immigrants … origin that increase the likelihood that firms offshore to that particular foreign country. …
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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 paper finds that in the first decade of its existence, NAFTA had a … net positive impact on domestic employment of 870,000 workers, an increase of 13.7%. Production workers in Mexican gained …
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-market policies for reasons other than trade. In this paper, we use detailed data on workers’ employment histories and training …. We also find that training has positive effects on employment spells and cumulative earnings in the two years after …
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-market policies for reasons other than trade. In this paper, we use detailed data on workers' employment histories and training …. We also find that training has positive effects on employment spells and cumulative earnings in the two years after …
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transport costs. We find that diminished transportation infrastructure had a significant negative impact on firms’ exports. …
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International trade is subject to information incompleteness. Firms must therefore engage in a costly search process to … find business partners. Online platforms can reduce these search costs and thereby favor firms exports. We examine whether … informational online platform that, by the end of 2018, connected more than 45,000 firms from 140 countries. In particular, we …
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