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The impact of trade and technology on skills in Viet Nam
Poole, Jennifer P.; Santos-Paulino, Amelia U.; … - 2017
Market-oriented reforms, such as liberalizing trade and encouraging foreign direct investment, can generate large efficiency gains for a country. However, there is also concern that lower-skilled workers are increasingly being replaced by technology and that more globalized markets are harming...
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Trade in information technologies and changes in the demand for occupations
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2019
I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in 2001-2014 period. China has become one of the major foreign suppliers of IT and has strongly contributed to the rise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140022
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Trade in information technologies and changes in the demand for occupations
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2021
I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in the 2001-2014 period. China has strongly contributed to the rise in trade in IT and has become one of the major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012432986
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Untangling trade and technology : evidence from local labor markets
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2013
We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition experience significant falls in employment, particularly in manufacturing and among...
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Untangling Trade and Technology : Evidence from Local Labor Markets
Autor, David H. - 2015
We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition experience significant falls in employment, particularly in manufacturing and among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035726
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Demand for Skills in Canada : The Role of Foreign Outsourcing and Information-Communication Technology
Yan, Beiling - 2009
important question: what is the role of ICT and foreign outsourcing in the increased demand for skilled workers‘ Using 84 … Canadian manufacturing industries over 1981–96, we find that both ICT and foreign outsourcing are important contributors to the …
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Demand for Skills in Canada : The Role of Foreign Outsourcing and Information-Communication Technology
Yan, Beiling - 2009
This study examines the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) and of foreign outsourcing on the … Canadian manufacturing industries over the 1981-1996 period, we find that both ICT and foreign outsourcing are important …
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The impact of ICT and robots on labour market outcomes of demographic groups in Europe
Albinowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr - 2022
We study the age- and gender-specific labour market effects of two key modern technologies, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. To identify the causal effects of technology adoption, we utilise the variation in technology...
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Does IT Outsourcing Increase Firm Success? An Empirical Assessment Using Firm-Level Data
Ohnemus, Jörg - 2014
estimated in order to explore differences in labor productivity between IT outsourcing and non-IT outsourcing firms. This … approach takes possible complementarities between IT outsourcing and production input factors into account and further allows … IT outsourcing to affect any factor of the production function. Estimation results show that IT outsourcing firms produce …
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Within and between firm trends in job polarization : the roles of globalization and technology
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Maczulskij, Terhi; Maliranta, Mika - In: Journal of economic geography 20 (2020) 4, pp. 1003-1039
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