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workers are affected the most, how employment and wages adjust to increased services trade, and the impact of policy settings …This report draws on individual-level and firm-level data to better understand the relationships between services trade … and labour market outcomes. It seeks to shed light on how firms benefit from the rise in services trade, which groups of …
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employment and wages in the United Kingdom. It finds that firms can benefit from services trade, through increased employment …Services trade has become increasingly important, yet its impact on employment has been understudied at present. This …, production and productivity. On average, workers’ wages are also positively impacted by increased services trade. The findings …
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This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of … extensions of maternity leave and the gender employment gap in Viet Nam. The findings show that, on average, the new law did not … exacerbate the gender employment gap, and there was a narrowing of the gap in the formal jobs sector compared to the waged jobs …
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employment and wages. We also find that these effects are more pronounced for skilled workers and that GVC participation … of global value chains (GVCs) on employment and wage premiums in the Indian manufacturing sector. We emphasize the GVC …'s impact on three labor market variables: (i) employment, (ii) the wage premium among skilled, unskilled, male, and female …
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This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male …: nonroutine cognitive, routine cognitive, nonroutine manual, and routine manual. Decomposing the changes in employment shares into … between-industry changes and within-industry changes across occupational categories reveals that within-industry employment …
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on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before … 1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary sectors collapsed, employment in the manufacturing sector did … not increase, while employment in the tertiary sectors such as financial services and community services grew. High- and …
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This paper analyzes the historical evidence of the gender gap in employment and wages in Mexico. We construct … consistent time series from 1988:Q1 to 2019:Q4 using employment surveys, and estimate a model of labor participation in the … formal market and wages for each gender and quarter, correcting selection biases. Based on these results, we implement a …
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We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has fallen since 1981. Previous research has found divergent results across techniques, identification strategies, data sets, and time periods. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income...
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in domestic markets, and how it affects relative wages and formal employment between men and women. Using the Revealed … sector compared to men. This study focuses on the role of international trade as a source of increased competitive pressure … labour force surveys that contain information on sectoral employment and earnings. We find that sectors of comparative …
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limits of trade policy in boosting employment and long-term productivity growth. Policymakers should manage their … findings from the literature on how productivity, innovation, and employment were impacted by the Great Liberalizationa period … of massive trade opening in the early 1990s in Latin America. Using manufacturing firm-level data and sectoral variation …
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