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How international experience helps shape labor market outcomes

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; … - 2022

This paper examines how experience from working in a foreign owned firm affects worker mobility. International experience can provide a worker with knowledge about foreign operations, thereby making them more attractive to other employers who are also engaged in international businesses. We...

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Global engagement, complex tasks, and the distribution of occupational employment

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; … - 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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Globalization and Imperfect Labor Market Sorting

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2011

industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched worker-firm data from Sweden, we find strong … suggests that there may be significant gains from globalization that have not been identified in the past – globalization may …

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Liberalized Trade and Worker-Firm Matching

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2012

Recent theoretical analysis suggests that a reduction in the cost of exporting increases the degree of assortative matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce the cost of imports have an ambiguous impact on matching. We combine detailed Swedish matched...

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Global Engagement and the Occupational Structure of Firms

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2014

. We examine the effect of globalization on the occupational mix using detailed Swedish data that cover all firms and a …

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Global Engagement, Complex Tasks, and the Distribution of Occupational Employment

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2015

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Globalization, the Jobs Ladder and Economic Mobility

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2020

Globalization affects the mix of jobs available in an economy and the rate at which workers gain skills. We develop a … globalization affects the wage distribution and the career path of workers as they move up the jobs ladder. We calibrate the model … investigate the impact of globalization. Our results indicate that although falling trade costs results in greater wage inequality …

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