of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK … or for average wages. These findings are robust to controlling for a variety of firm characteristics. …

This paper analyzes the labor market effects of offshoring in a high-wage home country and how these effects crucially …, respectively. Offshoring to these origins has opposing effects on German wages with respect to the relative task complexity of jobs …: While offshoring to the West puts pressure on the wages of complex jobs and increases the wages of simple jobs, offshoring …

Most studies focus on trade effects and organizational outcomes of international standards, neglecting the effect of … improves work conditions in small and medium enterprises in Vietnam. Certified firms pay higher wages on average. They are also …

This article examines the overall effect of global value chains (GVCs) on labour market outcomes, namely wages and …-least-squares method. The results indicate that GVC position is negatively correlated both with wages and with employment, while the effect … effect of involvement in GVCs is different from the channel of traditional trade in which the production process does not …

accounting for unemployment changes when computing the gains from trade across local labor markets in West Germany. Under … frictional local labor markets. The model yields a welfare formula that nests previous results in the literature and features an … the two key structural parameters needed for the welfare analysis, the trade elasticity and the elasticity of substitution …

employment and wages in the United Kingdom. It finds that firms can benefit from services trade, through increased employment …, production and productivity. On average, workers’ wages are also positively impacted by increased services trade. The findings …Services trade has become increasingly important, yet its impact on employment has been understudied at present. This …

links on wages between workers from Western, Central–Eastern, and Southern Europe employed in manufacturing and non … pressure on wages in Europe. This effect mainly concerns workers from Western Europe employed in manufacturing and is driven by …, but the pressure of GVC imports on wages in Western Europe is not economically negligible, in particular when inputs are …

Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of … with globalization may be twin to each other. We provide statistical evidence of this so far neglected trade-off for a … sample of Indian manufacturing firms. -- globalization ; uncertainty ; training ; labor markets ; India …

In this paper we demonstrate that intra-industry trade (or FDI)between identical countries could produce theobserved … deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers.This involves a model of North-Northintegration through either increased … trade flows or increased MNE-based production. Our motivation in this regardis arguments to the effect that trade cannot be …