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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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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/10009529635
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FDI, skill-specific unemployment, and institutional spillover effects
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2012
at home and abroad irrespective of their level of skill. -- FDI ; globalization ; search unemployment ; labor market … effects at the intensive industry margin via trade and FDI. Moreover, the distinction between high- and low-skill workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009409344
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Offshoring, Mismatch, and Labor Market Outcomes
Arseneau, David M. - 2015
We study the role of labor market mismatch in the adjustment to a trade liberalization that results in the offshoring of high-tech production. Our model features two-sided heterogeneity in the labor market: high- and low-skilled workers are matched in a frictional labor market with high- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028647
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The impact of the Chinese import shock on Finnish regional labor markets
Holappa, Veera - In: Journal of the Finnish Economic Association : JFEA 3 (2022) 1, pp. 21-39
The rapid rise of Chinese exports over the past few decades has raised concerns about manufacturing jobs and internal labor market outcomes in high-income countries. I analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition on Finnish regional manufacturing employment between 1995 and 2007. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285155
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Globalization and Labor Market Dynamics
McLaren, John - 2017
high, and that both switching costs and option value are crucial in computing welfare effects of globalization for workers …
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China Syndrome Redux : New Results on Global Job Reallocation
Ouyang, Difei - 2020
Trade between the U.S. and China is widely thought to have contributed significantly to the decline in U.S. manufacturing employment --- sometimes called the China Syndrome. Flipping the point of view, we examine the impact on China of the trade growth between 2000 and 2007: We divide China into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012850219
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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/10010226717
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Victims of progress : economic integration, specialization, and wages for unskilled labor
Francois, Joseph F.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2000
In this paper we demonstrate that intra-industry trade (or FDI)between identical countries could produce theobserved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303867
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Labor Misallocation Across Firms and Regions
Heise, Sebastian; Porzio, Tommaso - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop a frictional labor market model with multiple regions and heterogeneous firms to study how frictions impeding labor mobility across space affect the joint allocation of labor across firms and regions. Bringing the model to matched employer-employee data from Germany, we find that...
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