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Skills, labour costs and vertically differentiated industries : a general equilibrium analysis
Lutz, Stefan Heinz Hermann; Turrini, Alessandro - 1999
for industry profitability. Though, high wages appear also to be associated with high labour skills and then with superior … skilled labour. Given an underlying skills distribution, the model determines profits, wages and aggregate income and welfare …. Results show that high net wages due to a low skills endowment in the economy are typically associated with low profits …
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Labor-market exposure as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration
Ortega, Francesc; Polavieja, Javier G. - 2009
intensity of respondents' occupations. Third, OLS estimates are biased in a direction that suggests that natives respond to … ; communication skills ; international migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906225
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Arbeitslosigkeit und Lohnspreizung : empirische Befunde zur Arbeitsmarktsituation gering Qualifizierter in Deutschland
Rukwid, Ralf - 2007
In den Industriestaaten stehen die weniger qualifizierten Arbeitskräfte derzeit unter einem erheblichen Anpassungsdruck. Die Nachfragestruktur auf dem Arbeitsmarkt hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten zuungunsten der formal Ungelernten verschoben, wobei als die Hauptursachen dieser Entwicklung...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958815
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825071
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skillwage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010
interaction and non-routine content. -- Tasks ; offshoring ; outsourcing ; skills ; wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003943758
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010
and non-routine content. -- Tasks ; offshoring ; outsourcing ; skills ; wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944285
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010
-routine content. -- tasks ; offshoring ; outsourcing ; skills ; wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944721
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How do industries and firms respond to changes in local labor supply?
Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - 2011
In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524993
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International trade and unemployment : the worker-selection effect
Pinto, Marco de; Michaelis, Jochen - 2011
This paper analyzes how trade liberalization influences the unemployment rate of workers with different abilities. We refine the Melitz (2003) framework to account for trade unions and heterogeneous workers, who differ with respect to their abilities. Our main findings are: (i) highability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009231376
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Criss-Crossing Globalization : Uphill Flows of Skill-Intensive Goods and Foreign Direct Investment
Mattoo, Aaditya - 2014
This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: the export of skills embodied in goods, services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070753