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shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …
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This volume was prepared by Inga Heiland while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It comprises five chapters addressing one or more aspects of international trade and...
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.S. manufacturing employment --- sometimes called the China Syndrome. Flipping the point of view, we examine the impact on China of the …Trade between the U.S. and China is widely thought to have contributed significantly to the decline in U … trade growth between 2000 and 2007: We divide China into prefecture-level cities and construct measures of export exposure …
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This volume was prepared by Inga Heiland while she was working at the ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It comprises five chapters addressing one or more aspects of international trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622853
We analyse the gender-specific effects of trade liberalization on work participation and hours of work and primary participation in domestic duties in Indonesia. We show that female work participation increased in relative terms in regions that were more exposed to input tariff reductions,...
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This paper provides evidence of the links between Global Value Chains (GVCs) and labour market outcomes, focusing on developing economies. The literature generally indicates that firms with international linkages—which we use here as a proxy for GVC involvement—tend to employ more workers,...
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Since the 1990s, there has been a rapid increase in the proportion of temporary workers in the Japanese workforce. This paper empirically explores a linkage between the shift from permanent to temporary workers in the Japanese manufacturing sector and economic globalization, using various...
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the employment volatility associated with skilled workers. On the other hand, there is a weak evidence of increased … employment volatility as a result of foreign direct investment flows …
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equivalent to 6.2 per cent of total German employment. Furthermore, the job effects of trade were positive for a large majority … ; international trade ; employment …
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hand, the employees of firms subject to foreign competition face a more uncertain stream of earnings and riskier employment …
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