The paper analyses the effects of international fragmentation in terms of intermediate goods trade on the dynamics of … bill. Since 1993, intermediate goods trade with the European Union alone has accounted for a reduction of about 58 per cent …

country which is well endowed with low-skilled labour. We analyse under which conditions sinking trade costs stimulate … outsourcing activities, thereby increasing the wage dispersion and, if labour markets are unionised, also the employment of high …-skilled relative to low-skilled labour. For a panel of Austrian industries, we find first that decreasing trade barriers, which can be …

The paper analyses the effects of international fragmentation in terms of intermediate goods trade on the dynamics of … bill. Since 1993, intermediate goods trade with the European Union alone has accounted for a reduction of about 58 per cent …

aggregate employment. -- structural models ; heterogeneous firms ; fair wages ; labour market imperfections ; exporter wage …, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of … find that openness to international trade has quantitatively important effects, leading to higher wage inequality and lower …

in terms of both operating profits and average wages. We also find evidence for gains from trade for all five countries … hand and wages of workers employed by this firm on the other hand. The latter establishes an exporter wage premium, since … explanatory power. The estimates also enable us to quantify the exporter wage premium and the consequences of trade for the main …

trade agreements. If all countries considered abandoning existing preferential market access to services, this would reduce … their real consumption by up to 7.7 percent with a similar decline in real wages and real dividends (depending on the … of real wages as well as dividends). …

experiments are considered. First, we show that trade liberalization under minimum wages differs significantly from trade … employment expansion, an effect quite different from the source of gains from trade in the conventional approach. Second, we show … linkages in open economies. Labor-market imperfections arise by virtue of country-specific real minimum wages. Two principal …

This paper analyzes the effects of trade and outsourcing on the transition probabilities of employment between sectors … labor market turnover. Increases in imports, terms of trade and, especially, in the outsourcing share negatively affect the …

country which is well endowed with low-skilled labour. We analyse under which conditions sinking trade costs stimulate … outsourcing activities, thereby increasing the wage dispersion and, if labour markets are unionised, also the employment of high …-skilled relative to low-skilled labour. For a panel of Austrian industries, we find first that decreasing trade barriers, which can be …

The paper analyses the effects of international fragmentation in terms of intermediate goods trade on the dynamics of … bill. Since 1993, intermediate goods trade with the European Union alone has accounted for a reduction of about 58 per cent …