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Worker-specific effects of globalisation

Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2009

This paper sets up a general equilibrium model, in which firms are heterogeneous due to productivity differences and workers have fairness preferences and hence provide full effort only if their factor return is sufficiently high. With the wage considered to be fair by workers depending on the...

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Institutional reform and global value chains

Egger, Hartmut; Fischer-Thöne, Christian - 2021

This paper sets up a model of trade, in which two countries with differing levels of technology specialize on the production of subsets of the global value chain. In the open economy equilibrium, the technologically backward country exports intermediates in exchange for imports of a homogeneous...

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How international outsourcing drives up Eastern European wages

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - 2001

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Cross border outsourcing : a general equilibrium perspective and evidence for outward processing in EU manufacturing

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - 2001

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Outsourcing and skill-specific employment in a small economy : Austria and the fall of the iron curtain

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - 2000

outsourcing activities, thereby increasing the wage dispersion and, if labour markets are unionised, also the employment of high … associated with the fall of the Iron Curtain, indeed stimulate outsourcing to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and … second, that outsourcing to these countries significantly shifts relative employment in favour of high-skilled labour. …

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Outsourcing and skill-specific employment in a small economy : Austria and the fall of the Iron Curtain

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - 2000

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International fragmentation : boon or bane for domestic employment?

Egger, Hartmut (contributor); Kreickemeier, Udo (contributor) - 2005

the public concern can be addressed that international fragmentation and outsourcing to low wage countries lead to … outsourcing and critically assess the role of political intervention that aims to reduce unemployment benefits under …

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Reassessing the foreign ownership wage premium in Germany

Egger, Hartmut; Jahn, Elke J.; Kornitzky, Stefan - 2020

This paper evaluates the effect of foreign takeover on wages of workers in German establishments, using rich linked employer-employee data from 2003 to 2014. To identify a causal effect of foreign takeover, we combine propensityscore matching with a difference-in-difference estimator. We find...

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