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played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
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This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A novel theoretical mechanism, based on sorting of heterogeneous workers into occupations with task dependent offshoring cost, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to...
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Aufgrund der Tatsache, dass die Arbeitslosenquote Hochqualifizierter in Deutschland in den vergangenen 30 Jahren durchschnittlich 3% betrug, beschäftigt sich dieser Beitrag mit Theorien, die die Heterogenität von Arbeit berücksichtigen. Im Ergebnis kann eine Reduktion der Arbeitskosten die...
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Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the … labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System … provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify the effect of reducing trade barriers on the relative demand for …
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in wage-bill shares of highly educated workers and measures of non-routine and interactive tasks. -- Trade in tasks …
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The paper answers two questions simultaneously. What is the effect of offshoring on firms' total factor productivity? What is the effect of offshoring on skill-biased technological change? We estimate a model of firm production that allows for the effect of offshoring on both total factor...
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Foreign markets determine success and failure of those industries that have become reliant on foreign demand, impair the demand for employment and invoke changes in occupational fields and qualification requirements. This paper aims to disclose the direct and indirect influence of major trading...
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Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but … also throughout the developing world. This stylized fact is contrary to the predictions of classical trade theory that in … empirically tests the effects of trade on wage inequality in a differentiated panel framework where countries are classified …
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This paper studies the implications for wage inequality of two distinct forms of globalisation, namely trade and …-ante homogeneous workers, heterogeneous firms and search and matching frictions into a multi-region model of trade and FDI with … interplay between trade, FDI and labour market institutions. …
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competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising …-wage occupations due to trade compared to moving from mid- to low-wage occupations. Employing task content information of detailed …
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