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Unemployment and sectoral competitiveness in Southern European Union countries: facts and policy implications
Dimian, Gina Cristina; Aceleanu, Mirela Ionela; Ileanu, … - In: Journal of business economics and management 19 (2018) 3, pp. 474-499
This article addresses the problem of the main factors driving sectoral unemployment in the Mediterranean countries … that they are dealing with the highest unemployment rates in the European Union and a certain typology of the economic … labour market mismatches on the unemployment rate at six economic sectors level. Our paper makes three contributions to the …
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Import competition and the great US employment sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2015
Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528328
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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men
Autor, David H. - 2018
We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920450
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When work disappears : manufacturing decline and the falling marriage-market value of young men
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2018
We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845495
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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021701
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The Pathological Export Boom and the Bazaar Effect - How to Solve the German Puzzle
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021
, causing both unemployment and excessive value added in exports. Moreover, excessive wages induce too much outsourcing of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317598
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Rising wages: Has China lost its global labor advantage?
Yang, Dennis Tao; Chen, Vivian; Monarch, Ryan - 2010
We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics. Although real wages increased seven-fold during the period, growth was uneven across ownership types, industries and regions. Since the late 1990s, the wages of state-owned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269786
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Wages, prices, and international trade: Trends across industries for an "export champion"
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 1996
institutions were holding up relative wages of low-skilled labor which accounts for the disproportionate increase of unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398116
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"Blue Card" oder nationale Qualifikationsoffensive - was wird aus dem Wissenschaftsstandort Deutschland?
Schavan, Annette; Kempen, Bernhard; Wuttke, Jürgen; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 61 (2008) 02, pp. 3-15
Die Europäische Kommission plant, mit einer "Blue Card" verstärkt Experten aus Drittstaaten zu locken. Wäre es nicht sinnvoller, in eine bessere Ausbildung im Inland zu investieren? Annette Schavan, Bundesministerin für Bildung und Forschung, stellt die vom Bundeskabinett am 9. Januar 2008...
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The Belgian Iron and Steel Industry in the International Context
Lagneaux, Frédéric; Vivet, David - 2009
This paper provides a survey of the main developments in the iron and steel industry over the last few decades. The first chapter covers the changing conditions on international markets and identifies the main challenges facing the companies in this sector. These include the boom in China, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506680