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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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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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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … information frictions in trade. Using granular longitudinal matched employer–employee data and an instrumental variable approach …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm’s bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …
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results are also robust to alternative measures of the degree of matching, openness, or the trade status of an industry …
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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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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 mix using detailed Swedish data that cover all firms and a representative sample of the labor force for 1997-2005. We...
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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
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … information frictions in trade. Using granular longitudinal matched employer–employee data and an instrumental variable approach …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208875
firms if experience working for an internationally engaged firm reduces trade costs. Since international experience is less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208883
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … information frictions in trade. Using granular longitudinal matched employer-employee data and an instrumental variable approach …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615411