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This paper investigates the relationship between growing import penetration and manufacturing employment growth in 12 … country of origin. The findings emphasize a weak positive overall impact of growing trade on manufacturing employment. However …, intermediate inputs from China and the new EU members are substitutes to manufacturing employment in highly developed countries …
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manufacturing employment of between 89,900 and 209,800 workers – accounting for 8.5 to 19.8 per cent of manufacturing employment in … 1991. Such an effect seems best described as sizable, but not one that by itself spelled the end of manufacturing industry … in Australia. The largest impacts from growth in Chinese imports are found for manufacturing industries most exposed to …
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The rapid rise of Chinese exports over the past few decades has raised concerns about manufacturing jobs and internal … regional manufacturing employment between 1995 and 2007. The analysis exploits the cross-regional variation in initial industry … rising Chinese import competition has a negative effect on the share of manufacturing employment in Finnish sub-regions. …
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.S. manufacturing employment --- sometimes called the China Syndrome. Flipping the point of view, we examine the impact on China of the …-urban migration. In our main specification, the loss of one U.S. manufacturing job is associated with eight new Chinese manufacturing …
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The paper analyzes the link between firm characteristics and labor market regulation in five Asian economies - Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Viet Nam. Labor market policies and labor standards do not only affects workers, but also influence firms' investment and...
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The German economy exhibits rising service and declining manufacturing employment. But this decline is much sharper in …. They are not driven by manufacturing workers who smoothly switch to services. The observed shifts are entirely due to young … those labor flows. Exploiting variation across industries and regions, we find that globalization did not speed up the …
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Since the early 1990s, some developing countries have experienced a coincidence of rising exports - especially those related to global value chains - and improved labor market outcomes. During 2000-10, rising trade was associated with falling poverty and inequality in many developing countries....
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out of the labour force. Outsourcing is found to have no significant impact on job stability in the manufacturing sector …
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nonparticipation. Outsourcing is found to have no significant impact on overall job stability in the manufacturing sector, but it is … skill levels and age groups. This is especially the case in the manufacturing sector, where the hazard of transiting to …
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flexibility at the sector level. Thisindex shows that labour market flexibility has been increasing in all manufacturing …
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