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Trade Costs in Services: Firm Survival, Firm Growth and Implied Changes in Employment

Christen, Elisabeth; Pfaffermayr, Michael; Wolfmayr, Yvonne - 2019

This paper provides new insight into the firm-level employment impacts of trade cost changes at the industry level in the Austrian services sector. We apply a two-part model of firm survival (exit) and firm growth. Separate regressions for firm entry rates at the industry-region level complete...

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Pioneering a New Approach to Improving Working Conditions in Developing Countries: Better Factories Cambodia

Robertson, Raymond - 2020

The rise of global supply chains over the last three decades intensified international attention to the conditions endured by workers in poor countries. Collapsed buildings, fires and death created an imperative to address poor conditions. Consumers, non-governmental organizations,...

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Trade costs in services: Firm survival, firm growth and implied changes in employment

Christen, Elisabeth; Pfaffermayr, Michael; Wolfmayr, Yvonne - 2019

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The March of the Techies: Technology, Trade, and Job Polarization in France, 1994-2007

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2016

Using administrative employee-firm-level data on the entire private sector from 1994 to 2007, we show that the labor market in France has polarized: employment shares of high and low wage occupations have grown, while middle wage occupations have shrunk. During the same period, the share of...

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International Trade and Labor Market Discrimination

Chisik, Richard; Namini, Julian Emami - 2016

We embed a competitive search model with labor market discrimination, or nepotism, into a two-sector, two-country framework in order to analyze how labor market discrimination impacts the pattern of international trade and also how trade trade affects discrimination. Discrimination, or nepotism,...

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Social Status and Public Expectations: Self-Selection of High-Skilled Migrants

Lumpe, Claudia; Lumpe, Christian - 2016

We analyze public expectations about migrants' provision of work effort as a driving force in the self-selection process of high-skilled migrants. We adopt and extend Piketty's (1998) theoretical framework of social status and work out how country-specific public expectations affect the...

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Trade, Labor Markets, and the China Shock: What Can Be Learned from the German Experience?

Dustmann, Christian - 2021

A number of recent works have shown that the substantial increase in imports to the United States from China over … China shock being in large part over, any future shocks will most likely look quite different. It is unlikely that the … economic shocks of the future will affect the same workers, in the same ways, as the China shock did. Therefore, by focusing …

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Do exporters import gender inequality?

Lark, Olga; Videnord, Josefin - 2023

We examine whether exposure to gender inequality at export destinations affects the gender wage gap in exporting firms. We motivate the analysis through a stylized model where wages depend on worker productivity, and men have a comparative advantage when trading with gender-unequal countries due...

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Trade with China and India and manufacturing labour demand in Argentina

Castro, Lucio; Saslavsky, Daniel - 2008

For many in Latin America, the increasing participation of China and India in international markets is seen as a … impact on manufacturing employment? This paper attempts to answer this question by estimating the effects of trade with China … effects of trade with China and India on the level of employment in Argentina's manufacturing sector. Results suggest that …

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The rise of the East and the Far East: German labor markets and trade integration

Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in …

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