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German FDI in the Czech Republic : employment effects in the home country
Schäffler, Johannes; Moritz, Michael - 2018
Do investments in the Czech Republic lead to employment growth or employment losses in the German firms involved? To address this question, a unique database about German firms with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Czech Republic and firms without FDI in any country has been established...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795276
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Offshoring, total factor productivity and skill-biased technological change
Akhmetova, Zhanar; Ferguson, Shon - 2015
The paper answers two questions simultaneously. What is the effect of offshoring on firms' total factor productivity …? What is the effect of offshoring on skill-biased technological change? We estimate a model of firm production that allows … for the effect of offshoring on both total factor productivity and relative skilled labor productivity, and for spillovers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283243
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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2013
It is widely believed that globalization increases the volatility of employment and decreases the bargaining power of workers. One mechanism explaining this relationship is given by the long-standing Hicks-Marshall laws of derived demand: with international trade increasing competition and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771744
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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014
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
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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Sieglich, Sebastian - 2014
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
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Techies and Firm Level Productivity
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023
We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by leveraging French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and are associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348039
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Techies and firm level productivity
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023
We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by leveraging French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and are associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014288151
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Trade and tasks : an exploration over three decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2014
faster task offshoring in sectors exposed to lower labour-market tightness. We discuss policy implications of these findings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464704
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The Skill-Biased Effects of Exchange Rate Fluctuations
Siegenthaler, Michael - 2015
This paper examines the linkages between real exchange rate movements and firms' skill demand. Real exchange rate movements may affect unskilled workers differently than skilled workers because of skill-specific adjustment costs, or because exchange rates lead to changes in relative factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021151
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Exports and Labour Demand : Searching for Functional Structure in Multi-Output Multi-Skill Technologies
Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2021
In order to simplify the representation of a technological relationship between inputs and outputs, a production unit's technology must typically satisfy some restrictive conditions, some of them being well known in the literature. This paper presents new results for aggregating labour inputs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318384