This paper provides a review of the available literature on global value chains (GVCs) and employment markets in … mixed as regards pure processing trade (assembly), however: the limited data available on firms engaged purely in these …

Trade and technological change continually alter the workplace and labor-market outcomes, with consequences for economy …-quarter of changes in labor-market outcomes (wage inequality then and manufacturing job losses now) was predicted by trade …

production tasks reduces the wages paid to unskilled workers as well as their domestic employment. At the aggregate level, trade …We develop a model of international trade with a monopsonistically competitive labour market in which firms employ … and the offshoring of tasks. At the firm-level, exporting leads to higher wages and employment, while offshoring of …

production tasks reduces the wages paid to unskilled workers as well as their domestic employment. At the aggregate level, trade …We develop a model of international trade with a monopsonistically competitive labour market in which firms employ … and the offshoring of tasks. At the firm-level, exporting leads to higher wages and employment, while offshoring of …

zones in their respective legal and institutional frameworks in the 2000s as mechanisms for catalysing industrialization and … employment creation by means of domestic and foreign investments. Using a case-study approach, we find that special economic … zones in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, are largely latent drivers of growth and employment hampered by inadequate …

determining sectoral employment dynamics. This purpose is achieved through the construction of an indicator capturing the amount … to the literature on innovation-employment nexus, inter-sectoral knowledge spillovers and Global Value Chains, building … dimension for determining employment dynamics is then tested on a panel data of European industries over the 2008-2014 period …

direction and magnitude of the association between firm-level exposure to trade and the volatility of employment growth. We find …In this paper, we use detailed trade and transactions data for the U.S. manufacturing sector to empirically analyze the … in terms of the duration of time and intensity with which firms trade, the number and type of products they trade and the …

direction and magnitude of the association between firm-level exposure to trade and the volatility of employment growth. We find …In this paper, we use detailed trade and transactions data for the U.S. manufacturing sector to empirically analyze the … in terms of the duration of time and intensity with which firms trade, the number and type of products they trade and the …

Unlike many countries, Egypt did not experience significant labor market improvements following trade liberalization …. In this paper, we build upon the earlier work of Robertson et al. (2021) to investigate why increased Egyptian exports … did not directly increase employment. To illustrate the relationship between firm-level exporting and employment, we …

investment (FDI) policy reform on employment and wages. The so-called negative investment list regulates FDI at the highly … based on firm-level data and thereby exploit the exposure of local manufacturing industry employment to the negative … suggest an overall positive effect of local regulatory penetration on employment, which is especially pronounced among young …