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We employ employer-employee matched data from Denmark and utilize plausibly exogenous variation in the rise of import … competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising … import competition has led to reduced employment in mid-wage occupations compensated by an increased likelihood of employment …
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We offer a theoretical explanation and empirical evidence for a positive link between increased offshoring and … mainly focuses on the retraining of workers after a direct job displacement through offshoring. To establish a link between … offshoring and on-the-job training, we introduce an individual skill upgrading margin into the small-open-economy version of the …
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This paper provides precise figures on the incidence and wage penalties of mismatching in Germany. We use the BIBB … characteristics. We also examine wage penalties for mismatching in Germany, considering a large number of controls for workers and, in … results indicate that large shares of over- or under-educated workers in Germany have skills that correspond to the skill …
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This paper documents novel facts on within-occupation task and skill changes over the past two decades in Germany. In a …
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chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …
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This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German … industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of … sector, material offshoring, and offshoring to Central and Eastern Europe. Second, we find that the labour market adjusts to …
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chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …
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and long run, as well as in East and West Germany. Wage returns to the changes of task porfolios for the occupational …
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into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …
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Drawing on newly available panel data, this paper presents an empirical analysis of the wage effects of changing job tasks, assessed for individuals at their workplace. I am therefore able to exploit within-occupation within-individual variation, over time, to study wage returns to cognitive,...
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