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Global Engagement and the Occupational Structure of Firms
Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Davidson, Carl; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
Engagement in foreign markets can have an impact on firm organization and on the type of occupations that a firm needs. We examine the effect of globalization on the occupational mixes using detailed Swedish data that cover all firms and a representative sample of the labor force for 1997-2005....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818482
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442476
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Global Engagement, Complex Tasks, and the Distribution of Occupational Employment
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208740
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Globalization, the Jobs Ladder and Economic Mobility
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2020
investigate the impact of globalization. Our results indicate that although falling trade costs results in greater wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208831
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Global Engagement and the Occupational Structure of Firms
Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Davidson, Carl; … - 2014
Engagement in foreign markets can have an impact on firm organization and on the type of occupations that a firm needs. We examine the effect of globalization on the occupational mixes using detailed Swedish data that cover all firms and a representative sample of the labor force for 1997-2005....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504473
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Globalization and the jobs ladder
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; … - 2018
-select into groups that use different networks to fill vacancies. Our results indicate that although falling trade costs may … result in greater wage inequality, if trade costs are initially high, it can also lead to a wider path up the jobs ladders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145474
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Globalization, job tasks and the demand for different occupations
Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2019
Globalization has increased in recent decades, resulting in structural changes of production and labor demand. This paper examines how the increased global engagement of firms affects the structure of the workforce. We find that the aggregate distribution of occupations in Sweden has become more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145493
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Globalization, job tasks and the demand for different occupations
Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2019
Globalization has increased in recent decades, resulting in structural changes of production and labor demand. This paper examines how the increased global engagement of firms affects the structure of the workforce. We find that the aggregate distribution of occupations in Sweden has become more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994148
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Globalization and the jobs ladder
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; … - 2018
-select into groups that use different networks to fill vacancies. Our results indicate that although falling trade costs may … result in greater wage inequality, if trade costs are initially high, it can also lead to a wider path up the jobs ladders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943204
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Globalization, Job Tasks and the Demand for Different Occupations
Heyman, Fredrik - 2020
Globalization has increased in recent decades, resulting in structural changes of production and labor demand. This paper examines how the increased global engagement of firms affects the structure of the workforce. We find that the aggregate distribution of occupations in Sweden has become more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825646