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Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with … fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … definitions of outsourcing. Furthermore we find some evidence that high-skilled workers experienced increased wages due to …
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countries with high endowments of unskilled labor, their wages should rise relative to those of skilled labor. This paper …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 …
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-collar) occupations. Our results, identified out of the variation in wages within firm-worker pairs, are robust to controlling for a …
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revisited in this study: skilled- biased technological progress, the increasing international integration of labor and product … development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular … to what extent skill- biased technical change and trade liberalization share a major responsibility. The conclusion of …
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Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … real wage for workers in the lowest skill categories by up to 1.8% while it increased real wages for high-skilled workers …
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outsourcing tends to increase wages for both unskilled and skilled labor. We use a panel data set of workers in Danish …This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the …, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains arising from an increase in the division of labor, domestic …
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, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of … find that openness to international trade has quantitatively important effects, leading to higher wage inequality and lower … aggregate employment. -- structural models ; heterogeneous firms ; fair wages ; labour market imperfections ; exporter wage …
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, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of … find that openness to international trade has quantitatively important effects, leading to higher wage inequality and lower …
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The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which … trade and wages across types of products. In particular, firms that increase their exports (imports) of high- (intermediate …
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This study analyzes the effect of trade liberalization on wage inequality through industry wage premiums in Indonesia …-stage estimation approach. Using the national labor force survey dataset from Sakernas (Survei Angkatan Kerja Nasional-Indonesia Labor … trade liberalization, controlling for market concentration. The study finds a negative effect of import tariffs on industry …
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