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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-37, pp. 1-39
This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital and goods markets. Labor market imperfections in line with Mortensen and Pissarides (Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Theory of Unemployment, 1994) give rise to unemployment and a channel for the government to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310506
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Foreign direct investment and search unemployment theory and evidence
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2012
margin. Whether a country benefits from FDI in terms of unemployment depends on the respective country's net-FDI, measured as … the difference between in- and outward FDI. The derived FDI and unemployment nexus is tested employing macroeconomic data … for 19 OECD countries on unemployment, FDI, and labor market institutions. Results support the model in that net-FDI is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323793
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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2012
This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital and goods markets. Labor market imperfections in line with Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) give rise to unemployment and a channel for the government to influence markets through institutional changes. Labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323800
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Trade and Labor Reallocation with Heterogeneous Enforcement of Labor Regulations
Almeida, Rita; Poole, Jennifer P. - 2013
This paper revisits the question of how trade openness affects labor market outcomes in a developing country setting. We explore the fact that plants face varying degrees of exposure to global markets and to the enforcement of labor market regulations, and rely on Brazil's currency crisis in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319486
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Trade and unemployment: what do the data say?
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Prat, Julien; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2009
This paper documents a robust empirical regularity: in the long-run, higher trade openness is causally associated to a lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using: (i) panel data from 20 OECD countries, (ii) cross-sectional data on a larger set of countries. The time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269047
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Globalization and Labor Market Institutions: International Empirical Evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
A widespread concern is that labor market institutions erode in the course of globalization, which, in turn, decreases … employment and wages. By using panel data and crosssectional data, I investigate the influence of globalization on labor market … regulation. I use the indicators of labor market institutions by Gwartney et al. (2012) and the KOF indices of globalization. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312084
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Foreign takeovers and wage dispersion in Hungary
Csengődi, Sándor; Urban, Dieter M. - 2008
This study tests FDI technology spillover models with the assumption that learning takes time against wage bargaining … Hungarian employee-employer matched data from 1992 until 2001, and reject the FDI technology spillover model in favor of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272307
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Offshoring and labor income risk: An empirical investigation
Hogrefe, Jan; Yao, Yao - 2012
of studies explaining the level effects of globalization on the labor market in that it takes a look at effects on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290729
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The Impact of Globalization and Technology Transfer on Manufacturing Employment and Skills in Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013
played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a … countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329092
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How international experience helps shape labor market outcomes
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; … - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014542156