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Foreign direct investment and search unemployment theory and evidence
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2012
margin. Whether a country benefits from FDI in terms of unemployment depends on the respective country's net-FDI, measured as … the difference between in- and outward FDI. The derived FDI and unemployment nexus is tested employing macroeconomic data … for 19 OECD countries on unemployment, FDI, and labor market institutions. Results support the model in that net-FDI is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529635
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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2012
-reforming countries may react to this loss in competitiveness by initiating cooperative labor market reforms instead. -- FDI … ; globalization ; search unemployment ; labor market institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009628611
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FDI, skill-specific unemployment, and institutional spillover effects
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2012
at home and abroad irrespective of their level of skill. -- FDI ; globalization ; search unemployment ; labor market … effects at the intensive industry margin via trade and FDI. Moreover, the distinction between high- and low-skill workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009409344
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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2012
cooperative labor market reforms instead. -- FDI ; search unemployment ; labor market institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009632671
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Globalization and Labor Market Institutions: International Empirical Evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
A widespread concern is that labor market institutions erode in the course of globalization, which, in turn, decreases … employment and wages. By using panel data and crosssectional data, I investigate the influence of globalization on labor market … regulation. I use the indicators of labor market institutions by Gwartney et al. (2012) and the KOF indices of globalization. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312084
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Globalization and labor market institutions: International empirical evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 3, pp. 829-842
A widespread concern is that labor market institutions erode in the course of globalization, which, in turn, decreases … employment and wages. By using panel data and cross-sectional data, I investigate the influence of globalization on labor market … regulation. I use the indicators of labor market institutions by Gwartney et al. (2012) and the KOF indices of globalization. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010682518
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Globalization and Labor Market Institutions: International Empirical Evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2013
A widespread concern is that labor market institutions erode in the course of globalization, which, in turn, decreases … employment and wages. By using panel data and crosssectional data, I investigate the influence of globalization on labor market … regulation. I use the indicators of labor market institutions by Gwartney et al. (2012) and the KOF indices of globalization. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627552
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Globalization, Worker Mobility and Wage Inequality
Stijepic, Damir - 2016
In the present paper, I integrate frictional labor markets with on-the-job search into an otherwise standard heterogeneous firm model of intra-industry trade. Most importantly, I show that the returns to workers' inter-firm mobility are higher in a trade equilibrium than in autarky. Intuitively,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013004141
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Offshoring, Mismatch, and Labor Market Outcomes
Arseneau, David M. - 2015
We study the role of labor market mismatch in the adjustment to a trade liberalization that results in the offshoring of high-tech production. Our model features two-sided heterogeneity in the labor market: high- and low-skilled workers are matched in a frictional labor market with high- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028647
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The impact of the Chinese import shock on Finnish regional labor markets
Holappa, Veera - In: Journal of the Finnish Economic Association : JFEA 3 (2022) 1, pp. 21-39
The rapid rise of Chinese exports over the past few decades has raised concerns about manufacturing jobs and internal labor market outcomes in high-income countries. I analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition on Finnish regional manufacturing employment between 1995 and 2007. The...
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