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Liberalized trade policy and inequality : evidence from post-Multi-Fibre Arrangement India and some theoretical issues
Kar, Mausumi; Kar, Saibal - 2015
-level activities, size-wise as well as state-wise, thereby creating some sort of inequality. Moreover, we also show that the aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010465456
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Skill Upgrading and Imports in Us Manufacturing
Kosteas, Vasilios D. - 2006
Many researchers have asserted that trade plays a minor role in rising skill-intensity in the U.S., primarily because the majority of skill-upgrading occurred within industries. However, recent theoretical models show that international trade can induce within-industry skill-upgrading by raising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734340
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Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap : Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015
Robertson, Raymond - 2018
This paper focuses on how the forces of globalisation, specifically the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), have affected women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri Lanka, we find large positive wage premiums and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910737
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Profit Shifting, Employee Pay, and Inequalities : Evidence From US-Listed Companies
Souillard, Baptiste - 2021
havens. On the other hand, non-executive employees, if anything, see their wages fall. Furthermore, the inequality …
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Profit shifting, employee pay, and inequalities : evidence from US-listed companies
Souillard, Baptiste - 2022
anything, see their wages fall in the meantime. Furthermore, the inequality-deepening impact of firm entry into tax havens is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186381
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Profit Shifting, Employee Pay, and Inequalities : Evidence from US-Listed Companies
Souillard, Baptiste - 2022
anything, see their wages fall in the meantime. Furthermore, the inequality-deepening impact of firm entry into tax havens is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013290785
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Services imports and labour in Viet Nam
Jaax, Alexander; Johannesson, Louise; Nguyen, Thi Xuan Thu - 2020
This paper draws on detailed firm-level and worker-level information to explore the link between services imports and employment dynamics in the case of Viet Nam. The econometric analysis consists of two parts. First, data covering formal firms are exploited to investigate the relationship...
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Dream jobs
Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; Ottaviano, … - 2020
Understanding why certain jobs are 'better' than others and what implications they have for a worker's career is clearly an important but still relatively unexplored question. We provide both a theoretical frame-work and a number of empirical results that help distinguishing 'good' from 'bad'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249047
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Dream jobs
Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; Ottaviano, … - 2020
Understanding why certain jobs are 'better' than others and what implications they have for a worker's career is clearly an important but still relatively unexplored question. We provide both a theoretical framework and a number of empirical results that help distinguishing 'good' from 'bad'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249457
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US Trade and Wages : The Misleading Implications of Conventional Trade Theory
Lawrence, Robert Z. - 2013
manufactured imports from developing countries since the 1990s have been a powerful source of increased US wage inequality.In this … mandated increased US wage inequality. While these results conflict with standard theory, they are easily explained if the … is the case, the impact of increased trade with developing countries on US wage inequality is far more muted than …
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