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wages approaches the issue from the production side of general equilibrium (skill-biased technical change, international …
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wages approaches the issue from the production side of general equilibrium (skill-biased technical change, international …
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Wage ratios between different percentiles of the wage distribution have moved in parallel and then diverged in the U.S. in the last 50 years. In this paper, I study the theoretical response of wage ratios to skill-biased technical change and trade integration. I build a simple model of...
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composition and wages. We contribute to empirical research on these issues in three ways. First, we provide novel evidence that is … firm characteristics, including size and capital intensity, exporters still pay higher wages and employ more skilled … exports, imports or a combination of the two. We show that failing to control for the importing activities may bias upward …
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development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …
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Exports serve as an engine of economic growth and can potentially help countries come out of poverty and unemployment …. However, as the production process is increasingly getting fragmented globally, greater exports no longer imply higher … domestic production, as imports of intermediate products used as inputs in exports also increase. Global Value Chains (GVCs …
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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 … suggest that services imports enhance female wages more than those of males, thereby contributing to narrow the gender wage …
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We use linked employer-employee data from Italy to explore the relationship between exports and wages. Our empirical …
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