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international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have …
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It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238353
It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250050
played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
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This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A novel theoretical mechanism, based on sorting of heterogeneous workers into occupations with task dependent offshoring cost, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to...
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Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) with the firm-level production and trade data of Turkish manufacturing industry, this paper … is exploring the employment impact of international trade. The analysis is based on firm level data obtained from Turkish …
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We empirically study the dynamics of labor market adjustment following the Brazilian trade reform of the 1990s. We use … variation in industry-specific tariff cuts interacted with initial regional industry mix to measure trade-induced local labor … adjustment induced by the trade reform at the regional and individual level. Workers initially employed in harder hit regions …
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We empirically study the dynamics of labor market adjustment following the Brazilian trade reform of the 1990s. We use … variation in industry-specific tariff cuts interacted with initial regional industry mix to measure trade-induced local labor … adjustment induced by the trade reform at the regional and individual level. Workers initially employed in harder hit regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024344
Tracking individual workers across employers and industries after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that … comparative-advantage industries and at exporters. These findings are robust to instrumenting trade barriers and export status … predictors of labor turnover. Trade liberalization is associated with significantly more transitions to informal work status and …
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market adjustment following Brazil's early 1990s trade liberalization. We document how workers and regional labor markets … adjust to trade-induced changes in local labor demand, examining various adjustment margins, including earnings and wage …, informal employment, and non-employment. Our results provide insight into the regional labor market effects of trade, and have …
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