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equilibrium where input sub-bundles may be traded (offshoring). The model allowsfor several goods and two fragments, produced with …
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We introduce search unemployment à la Pissarides into Melitz’ (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms. We allow … effect of trade influences labor market outcomes. Trade liberalization lowers unemployment and raises real wages as long as …
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offshoring(integration) and sourcing strategies and (4) location of firms and labor markets. Second, weoverview existing …
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This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals …
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We analyze the effects of offshoring in a multisector-growth-model where the sectors differ by TFP-growth. Our results … imply that offshoring influences the long run grwoth rate of the economy along different channels and that the grwoth … grwoth effects can arise provided that some dependencies exist between countries. Furthermore, offshoring has an impact on …
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lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using:(i) panel data from 20 OECD countries, (ii) cross … within-country trade. Our main findingis robust to various definitions of unemployment rates and openness measures …
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This paper studies how dierent unionisation structures aect rm productivity, rmperformance, and consumer welfare in a monopolistic competition model with heterogeneousrms and free entry. While centralised bargaining induces tougher selection among hetero-geneous producers and thus increases...
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We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer-employee data set. We improve on the previous literature (i) by using anew methodology to quantify the contribution of an extensive set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable...
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This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namelythe relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-basedemployment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs)...
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In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates ofunemployment, we … construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which labor is mobileacross the two sectors, and unemployment is caused by … search frictions. We find that,contrary to general perception, wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases due …
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