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Global economic integration, technology diffusion and climate change
Hübler, Michael - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003963710
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The Pro-Trade Bias of Offshoring
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab; Chau, Nancy; … - 2021
Technological advance and improvements in communication technologies have facilitated the offshoring of jobs worldwide … countries that contain developing country labor content. We demonstrate that this pattern of offshoring can harbor a pro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211228
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The role of trade and offshoring in the determination of child labour
Cigno, Alessandro; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sabani, Laura - 2015
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period-model of the world economy, we show that trade liberalization may reduce child labour in developing countries where the initial share of skilled workers in the adult workforce – though not as large as in developed countries – is nonetheless...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488142
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The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - 2015
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period-model of the world economy, we show that trade liberalization may reduce child labour in developing countries where the initial share of skilled workers in the adult workforce – though not as large as in developed countries – is nonetheless...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026856
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The Impact of Local and Foreign Automation on Labor Market Outcomes in Emerging Countries
Diaz Pavez, Luis R.; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2021
, the former being driven by a reduction of offshoring and affecting nearly 60% of jobs in emerging countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220305
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Development of goods trade with Arabian countries
In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 4 (1969) 6, pp. 196-197
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International Trade and Directed Technical Change in Developing Countries
Kim, Minho - 2019
This paper examines the relation between the skill premium and international trade given differences in the relative supply of skills across countries while allowing the South (developing countries) to develop its appropriate technology. Typical assumptions put forward in the literature state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861644
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Offshoring to a developing nation with a dual labor market
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2020
improvements in the informal sector expand both offshoring and outsourcing, and the developed nation wage must rise. When the …We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal … informal sector. An improvement in the productivity in performing offshored tasks in the developing country raises offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242847
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Does skill-biased technical change diffuse internationally?
Schulte, Patrick - 2015
This paper studies the question whether skill-biased technical change diffuses internationally and that way contributes to the increasing relative skill demand in other countries. So far, the role of skill-biased technology diffusion has hardly been studied empirically. Using new sectoral data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418759
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Globalization and Employment : Imported Skill Biased Technological Change in Developing Countries
Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - 2021
This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namely the relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). In doing so, this paper provides a direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317026