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We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to … effects on either wages or employment probabilities in manufacturing. In the service industries, workers are affected in terms …
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We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to … effects on either wages or employment probabilities in manufacturing. In the service industries, workers are affected in terms …
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Germany for the period from 1970 until German reunification in 1990. Building on the emphasis of trade theory on relative … labor, wages were increasing disproportionately both for low- and highskilled labor whereas employment trends were favoring … higher skill levels monotonically. Import competition as well as total factor productivity were increasing disproportionately …
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emigration on the real wages and salaries of German laborers. Annual data for 49 years has been used to estimate twelve different … regressions, trying to capture the effect of these variables on the real wages and salaries in Germany while considering the … literature. The paper concludes that wages are unresponsive to the macroeconomics changes most of the time while salaries are …
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volumes. High and rigid German wages largely result from the minimum wage constraint imposed by a welfare state that offers …
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Many plant-level studies find that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the …
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