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This paper re-examines the trade-based explanation of increased wage inequality in developed countries by focusing on …
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This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import-use matrices of input-output tables for manufacturing...
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fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … fragmentation. …
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This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import-use matrices of input-output tables for manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277445
This paper analyzes the labor market effects of offshoring in a high-wage home country and how these effects crucially depend on (1) job complexity and (2) the characteristics of the destination country. It thereby links several sources: rich administrative data on individuals and plants in the...
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unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the … sector with the lower (or equal) vacancy costs, there is an unambiguous decrease in economywide unemployment. With imperfect … intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous unemployment reduction in the non …
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migration and trade. This paper aims to check the effect of such restrictions on the unemployment of unskilled labor in the …. In case of trade restriction, however, the rise or fall in unemployment depends on both the structure of the economy and … raises unemployment for given factor intensity. The results remain same even in a slightly different structure of the economy …
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present study explores the link between trade and unemployment for the case of Nigeria with the intention of exploring how the … unemployment crisis has been impacted within the dynamics of the country's trade performance. The empirical evidence shows that the … nation's terms of trade were insignificant to unemployment rate while trade openness and domestic investment, on the other …
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much more than before. Introducing finance affects trade patterns with unemployment and especially with imperfect credit … their impact on production, trade and unemployment. The paper has policy implications for role of financial development …This paper attempts to build up a Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of production and trade where capital is introduced …
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Dixit and Stiglitz (1977) with applications in international trade by Krugman (1979,1980), by modeling fixed and variable … pattern of trade between varieties and output per variety, which is indeterminate in a standard single good Dixit …-Stiglitz-Krugman model. Later we reflect on wage inequality and unemployment providing some interesting results. …
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