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Jobs gained and lost through trade: The case of Germany
Lurweg, Maren; Westermeier, Andreas - 2010
The nature of international trade has changed significantly. For centuries, trade concentrated on the exchange of finished goods. It now increasingly involves bits of value that are added at different locations to combine into one final product. Therefore, trade in functions or tasks are of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302726
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The rise of the East and the far East: German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012
-oriented industries, however, experienced even stronger employment gains and lower unemployment. In the aggregate, we estimate that this … effect on employment relationships. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323824
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The rise of the East and the Far East: German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012
-oriented industries, however, experienced even stronger employment gains and lower unemployment. In the aggregate, we estimate that this … effect on employment relationships. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283967
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Transatlantic trade and investment partnership : sectoral and macroeconomic perspectives for Germany ; the EU and the US
Irawan, Tony; Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2014
could bring a considerable increase of exports and output as well as changes in the composition of output and employment …. Thus export simulation studies in combination with input output analysis and employment analysis is useful. In the analysis … presented the focus is mainly on sectoral output and employment effects where the key sectors are the automotive sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354546
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The rise of the East and the Far East : German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2013
-oriented industries, however, experienced even stronger employment gains and lower unemployment. In the aggregate, we estimate that this … at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall effect on employment relationships. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223570
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The rise of the East and the Far East : German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2012
employment by 3.99 percentage points, whereas imports increased manufacturing employment by 2.33 percentage points. We find no … effects of trade integration with China on the employment margin. We complement our findings with results on regional wage … employed and have more (less) stable employment outcomes, defined as working in the same firm or industry. These effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508139
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Profiles of local growth and industrial change : facts and an explanation ; conference paper
Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - 2014
In this paper we take a detailed look at the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in German regions over the period 1978-2008. In the aggregate, the German economy is characterized by a secular decline of the manufacturing sector and a rise of the modern service economy. This trend of structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487251
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German Foreign Direct Investment and Wages
Lochner, Stefan; Broll, Udo - 2007
Over the last decade, German multinationals created about two million jobs abroad with increasing foreign direct investment (FDI). While there are many reasons for firms to go multinational and probably just as many for Germany's high unemployment, this paper aims to investigate the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296822
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Industrial change, stability of relative earnings, and substitution of unskilled labor in West-Germany
Steiner, Viktor; Mohr, Robert - 1998
We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular … earnings of unskilled workers could have contributed to the stabilization of their relative employment level. In other sectors … of the economy, the decline in the skills ratio, i.e. the employment share of unskilled relative to skilled workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297589
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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium: technical progress, globalization and European Monetary Union
Franz, Wolfgang - 1999
development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297646