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Offshoring and unemployment: the role of search frictions and labor mobility
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - 2009
unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the … intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous unemployment reduction in the non-offshoring …
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Search and offshoring in the presence of animal spirits
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - 2009
decreases. Next we allow for offshoring of unskilled jobs in our model, and we find that, as a result, it becomes more likely … that the fair-wage constraint binds. Offshoring of unskilled jobs always leads to an increase in skilled wage, a decrease … adverse impact of offshoring on unskilled unemployment. The unskilled wage can increase or decrease as a result of offshoring. …
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Specific human capital and wait unemployment
Herz, Benedikt - In: Journal of labor economics 37 (2019) 2, pp. 467-508
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Socially useless jobs
Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2018
It has been claimed that many workers in modern economies think that their job is socially useless, i.e. that it makes no or a negative contribution to society. However, the evidence so far is mainly anecdotal. We use a representative dataset comprising 100,000 workers from 47 countries at four...
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Crunch time : how married couples confront unlemployment
Rao, Aliya Hamid - 2020
Introduction: a tale of two unemployments -- Men at home: reconfiguring space during mens unemployment -- Idealizing the home and spurning the workplace? -- Dinner table diaries -- Can women be ideal job-seekers? -- Why don't unemployed men do more housework? -- Why do unemployed women do even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162434
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Socially useless jobs
Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2018 - This version: 31 March 2018
It has been claimed that many workers in modern economies think that their job is socially useless, i.e. that it makes no or a negative contribution to society. However, the evidence so far is mainly anecdotal. We use a representative dataset comprising 100,000 workers from 47 countries at four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011818258
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Specific Human Capital and Wait Unemployment
Herz, Benedikt - 2017
A displaced worker might rationally prefer to wait through a long spell of unemployment instead of seeking employment at a lower wage in a job he is not trained for. I evaluate this trade-off using micro-data on displaced workers. To achieve identification, I exploit that the more a worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967413
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Offshoring and unemployment : the role of search frictions and labor mobility
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - 2009
unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the … intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous unemployment reduction in the non-offshoring … unemployment in this sector rising. -- Trade ; offshoring ; search ; unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831894
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Search and offshoring in the presence of "animal spirits"
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - 2009
decreases. Next we allow for offshoring of unskilled jobs in our model, and we find that, as a result, it becomes more likely … that the fair-wage constraint binds. Offshoring of unskilled jobs always leads to an increase in skilled wage, a decrease … adverse impact of offshoring on unskilled unemployment. The unskilled wage can increase or decrease as a result of offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831919
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Offshoring and jobs : the myriad channels of influence
Groizard Cardosa, José Luis; Ranjan, Priya; Rodríguez … - In: European economic review : EER 72 (2014), pp. 221-239
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