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Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in … trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers. Wage inequality across and within firms results from their different … Hartz labor market reforms account for the sharp increase in residual inequality observed in the data. By contrast …
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Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in … trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers. Wage inequality across and within firms results from their different … Hartz labor market reforms account for the sharp increase in residual inequality observed in the data. By contrast …
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Considering the sector bias of International Outsourcing within a 2x2 framework, four different scenarios appear. Each industry can either relocate its high or its low skill intensive production fragment. Traditionally, depending on the superiority of a wage vs. an outsourcing-effect, general...
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Aufgrund der Tatsache, dass die Arbeitslosenquote Hochqualifizierter in Deutschland in den vergangenen 30 Jahren durchschnittlich 3% betrug, beschäftigt sich dieser Beitrag mit Theorien, die die Heterogenität von Arbeit berücksichtigen. Im Ergebnis kann eine Reduktion der Arbeitskosten die...
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We analyze the offshorability of jobs using the German Qualifications and Career Survey. The paper differentiates between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of organizational and spatial relocation derived from the...
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This paper analyses the potentials of jobs to be offshored or outsourced. We use four waves of the BIBB/BAuA Survey on Qualification and Working Conditions in Germany and employ a large set of potential determinants of offshoring and outsourcing derived from the literature. Applying the...
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We analyze the offshorability of jobs using the German Qualifications and Career Survey. The paper differentiates between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of organizational and spatial relocation derived from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343756
We examine the interplay between changes in the functional distribution of income and the distribution of market income among households. We use micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel as well as macro data from the German Federal Statistical Office from 2002 to 2008. We categorize and...
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A number of recent works have shown that the substantial increase in imports to the United States from China over recent decades led to large but highly concentrated negative labor market outcomes for those workers most exposed to these imports. On the other hand, such substantially negative...
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