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aggregate Employment for a sample of 45 OECD and G20 countries for the period 1990-2019 after controlling for the effects of … results suggest that a more product-wise concentrated export structure leads to new employment opportunities. In contrast …, geographical diversification of export does not have any impact on overall Employment. The Internet has substitution effects on …
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generated discontinuous changes in U.S. trade ows. We find that the impacts of the export shock on employment, income, and home … net impact of the shock was to raise manufacturing sector employment by 250,000 workers over the decade of the 1970s. …
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This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence...
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Belgium. Both imports and exports appear to be highly concentrated among few firms and seem to have become more so over time … too. We note that the number of trading firms diminishes as the number of export destinations or import origins increases …. The same is true if we consider the number of products traded. With regard to productivity differentials, firms that both …
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played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed … countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied …
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improving employment outcomes and generating more inclusive growth. …
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, we find that this reduction in the wage gap was largely explained by differences in the occupational employment of female …
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towards more productive firms and exporters. Specifically, reducing trade costs induces new exporters to choose a higher …
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-labor intensive differentiated-product sector so that the country with more discriminatory firms has a comparative advantage in the … effect in the country with fewer discriminatory firms. Similarly, the profit difference between non-discriminatory and … discriminatory firms increases in the less discriminatory country and shrinks in the more discriminatory one. In this way trade can …
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Technological advance and improvements in communication technologies have facilitated the offshoring of jobs worldwide, where a typical scene following the supply chain involves developing countries importing finished products from developed countries that contain developing country labor...
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