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Globalization and Executive Compensation

Keller, Wolfgang; Olney, William W. - 2017

This paper identifies globalization as a factor behind the rapid increase in executive compensation and inequality over the last few decades. Employing comprehensive data on top executives at major U.S. companies, we show that compensation is higher at more global firms. We find that pay...

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Integrated sectors - diversified earnings: The (missing) impact of offshoring on wages and wage convergence in the EU27

Parteka, Aleksandra; Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna - 2014

This paper assesses the impact of international outsourcing/offshoring practices on the process of wage equalization across manufacturing sectors in a sample of EU27 economies (1995-2009). We discriminate between heterogeneous wage effects on different skill categories of workers (low, medium...

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The effects of offshoring to low-wage countries on domestic wages – A worldwide industrial analysis

Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna; Parteka, Aleksandra - 2016

This paper extends the literature on the implications of offshoring for labour markets by investigating its effect on the wages of different skill groups in a broad global context. The analysis draws on input-output data from the WIOD project, and in the panel analysed (13 manufacturing...

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The China Shock and the Nationalist Backlash against Globalization: Attitudinal Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

Harms, Philipp; Steiner, Nils - 2019

effects. We focus on the local consequences of the 'China shock' and measure the exposure of British NUTS3-regions to the … growth in imports from China as a function of their initial sectoral employment structure. We first verify that the 'China … supportive of the nationalist backlash-thesis. Individuals residing in regions with a stronger "China shock" turn more critical …

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Immigration and Offshoring

Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2018

Two Forces of 'Globalisation' and Their Impact on Labour Markets in Western Europe 2005-2014 This paper investigates …

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Offshoring and Skill-Biased Technical Change in the Context of US Protectionism

Agnese, Pablo; Hromcová, Jana - 2019

We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall...

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Training and labor adjustment to trade

Blyde, Juan S.; Pires, José Claudio Linhares; Chatruc, … - 2019

While there is a large body of literature evaluating how active labor-market policies such as training impact worker outcomes, relatively few studies examine how such policies impact workers who are displaced by trade. The few studies on training and trade-related labor adjustment focus on the...

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Local labor - market effects of NAFTA in Mexico: Evidence from Mexican commuting zones

Trachtenberg, Danielle - 2019

This paper estimates the effects of NAFTA on labor and wages in Mexico using a local labor-markets approach. While NAFTA offered greater export opportunities to Mexican firms that may raise employment, it also opened the door to increased import competition that may dampen employment gains. This...

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The Impact of Immigration on Firm-Level Offshoring

Olney, William W.; Pozzoli, Dario - 2018

This paper studies the relationship between immigration and oﬀshoring by examining whether an inﬂux of foreign workers reduces the need for ﬁrms to relocate jobs abroad. We exploit a Danish quasi-natural experiment in which immigrants were randomly allocated to municipalities using a...

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International health worker mobility and trade in services

Carzaniga, Antonia Giulia; Dhillon, Ibadat S.; … - 2019

Despite its substantial and increasing importance to health systems and inclusive economic growth, the relationship between international trade in services and health worker mobility has been largely unexplored. However, international health worker mobility and trade in services have both been...

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