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the middle. Secondly, wage changes depend on the interplay between upstreamness and GVC intensity. In sectors close to …
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distribution, both informal wage earners and independent (own account) workers face significant earnings penalties vis-à-vis the …
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-country assessment of wage response to global production links within global value chains (GVCs) in the period 2005-2014. Unlike the …
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This article examines the overall effect of global value chains (GVCs) on labour market outcomes, namely wages and labour demand. The analysis exploits the World Input-Output Database (WIOD, 2016 release) covering 43 countries and 54 sectors from 2000 to 2014. GVC involvement is measured by the...
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This paper provides a theoretical rationale for private investment in basic research. It explains the decision by some firms to hire scientists who have an intrinsic motivation to pursue academic research and allow them to do so while they also dedicate time to the firm's applied agenda. We show...
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This paper assesses the impact of international outsourcing/offshoring practices on the process of wage equalization … across manufacturing sectors in a sample of EU27 economies (1995-2009). We discriminate between heterogeneous wage effects on … integration, so we augment a model of conditional wage convergence through the inclusion of sector-specific broad and narrow …
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international trade in manufacturing inputs. Being particularly interested in the wage effects of offshoring to low wage countries … domestic wages exhibited by offshoring to LWC is relatively small. LWC (Low wage countries) classifications employed in this …
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This study presents a systematic literature review (SLR) to provide a collection of theories explaining the impact of global value chains (GVCs) on labour market outcomes. Due to the complex nature of GVCs and the interconnectedness of wages, employment, and productivity, many direct and...
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