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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226717
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Exports and labor demand : evidence from Egyptian firm-level data
Berg, Claudia; Robertson, Raymond; López Acevedo, Gladys - 2022
Unlike many countries, Egypt did not experience significant labor market improvements following trade liberalization … export expansion, this is not occurring at a large enough scale to be felt at the macro level. To seize the benefits of trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414940
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Services imports and labour in Viet Nam
Jaax, Alexander; Johannesson, Louise; Nguyen, Thi Xuan Thu - 2020
This paper draws on detailed firm-level and worker-level information to explore the link between services imports and employment dynamics in the case of Viet Nam. The econometric analysis consists of two parts. First, data covering formal firms are exploited to investigate the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312299
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On the interaction between trade reforms and labor market regulation : evidence from the MENA countries' labor markets
Selwaness, Irène; Zaki, Chahir - 2017
Using a panel of MENA countries, this paper tries to examine the interaction between trade reforms and labor market … regulations on the outcome of the labor market. The theoretical predictions on this literature show that the effects of trade … liberalization in any given country are conditional on the nature of labor market regulations since trade liberalization is more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110502
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Exporters, multinationals and residual wage inequality : evidence and theory
Schroeder, Sarah - 2020
This paper studies the implications for wage inequality of two distinct forms of globalisation, namely trade and …-ante homogeneous workers, heterogeneous firms and search and matching frictions into a multi-region model of trade and FDI with … interplay between trade, FDI and labour market institutions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315942
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International trade and job polarization : evidence at the worker level
Keller, Wolfgang; Utar, Hâle - 2023
competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising …-wage occupations due to trade compared to moving from mid- to low-wage occupations. Employing task content information of detailed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014326825
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Patterns of International Fragmentation of Production and Implications for the Labor Markets
Helg, Rodolfo; Tajoli, Lucia - 2004
Growing shares of international trade flows consist of intermediate and unfinished goods shipped from one country to … of international fragmentation of production in Europe, looking at how it affects relative labor demand. Models of trade … change in the relative factor intensities of the affected industries. We use international trade data specifically related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071907
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Automation, labor markets, and trade
Micco, Alejandro - 2019 - This version: June 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012150290
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Importing, Exporting and Firm-Level Employment Volatility
Kurz, Christopher Johann - 2013
In this paper, we use detailed trade and transactions data for the U.S. manufacturing sector to empirically analyze the … direction and magnitude of the association between firm-level exposure to trade and the volatility of employment growth. We find … in terms of the duration of time and intensity with which firms trade, the number and type of products they trade and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073629
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Importing, Exporting and Firm-Level Employment Volatility
Kurz, Christopher Johann - 2013
In this paper, we use detailed trade and transactions data for the U.S. manufacturing sector to empirically analyze the … direction and magnitude of the association between firm-level exposure to trade and the volatility of employment growth. We find … in terms of the duration of time and intensity with which firms trade, the number and type of products they trade and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074602