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Trade between the U.S. and China is widely thought to have contributed significantly to the decline in U ….S. manufacturing employment --- sometimes called the China Syndrome. Flipping the point of view, we examine the impact on China of the … trade growth between 2000 and 2007: We divide China into prefecture-level cities and construct measures of export exposure …
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When job search takes place across labour markets, the standard flow approach to labour market analysis fails to uncover the effectiveness at which workers are matched to available jobs. A spatially augmented matching function is backed by a spatial search model with endogenous search intensity....
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's Longitudinal Business Database, we document that firms redistribute the employment impacts of local demand shocks across regions … sharp drop in consumer demand, leading to large employment losses in the non-tradable sector. Consistent with firms … local demand shocks in other counties linked through firms' internal networks. These results are not driven by direct demand …
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In this paper we conduct a counterfactual analysis and estimate the quantitative importance of demand and supply … isolate the impact of capital-skill complementarity (i.e., demand effects) and varying skill-specific labor supply (i …
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We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five quarters drawn from Mexico?s Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic random effects panel data model. It consists of two separate wage equations for the two sectors and a...
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This paper studies the effect of foreign-owned companies (FOCs) in the region on establishment survival and growth in the Finnish business sector. We analyze whether the presence of the FOCs has asymmetric effects among the local businesses. Foreign presence in the region is measured in a novel...
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structural characteristics of regions into account and investigate differences in labor demand responsiveness and their potential … findings point to substantially distinct labor demand responses to changes in output and wages among European countries and … labor markets ; labor demand ; institutions ; Europe ; error correction model …
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We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five quarters drawn from Mexico's Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic random effects panel data model. It consists of two separate wage equations for the two sectors and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009520496
has a limited reaction to labour demand shocks, consistent with the high rigidity of nominal wages and pro …-cyclical variations in rents, which absorb the gains (losses) from higher (lower) employment rates; c) labour demand shocks are fairly …
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than to local demand factors However, the impact of determinants is not homogenous across poviats Where unemployment is low …
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