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China Syndrome Redux : New Results on Global Job Reallocation
Ouyang, Difei - 2020
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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Labor reallocation in response to trade reform
Menezes Filho, Naércio Aquino; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2007
Tracking individual workers across employers and industries after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that foreign import penetration and tariff reductions trigger worker displacements but that neither comparative-advantage industries nor exporters absorb displaced workers for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264083
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Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform
Menezes-Filho, Naercio A.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2021
Tracking individual workers across employers and industries after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that foreign import penetration and tariff reductions trigger worker displacements but that neither comparative-advantage industries nor exporters absorb displaced workers for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317183
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Labor market regulation and firm adjustments in skill demand
Bottasso, Anna; Bratti, Massimiliano; Cardullo, Gabriele; … - 2023
We study how changes in labor market regulation may trigger firm adjustments in skill demand. Leveraging rich administrative data from Italy, we investigate the effects of a reform that reduced firing costs for permanent employees and tightened temporary contracts' regulation to increase job...
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Employment dynamics and openness to trade in Finnish manufacturing
Nurmi, Satu - 2004
This paper examines internationalisation and employment dynamics in the Finnish manufacturing sector 1980–2001 using plant and industry-level data. According to the results, there is a large heterogeneity in the patterns of international trade and employment across industries and over time. In...
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Cyclicality of job and worker flows : new data and a new set of stylized facts ; conference paper
Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian; Seth, Stefan; … - 2013
We study the relationship between cyclical job and worker flows at the plant level using a new data set spanning from 1976-2006. We find that procyclical labor demand explains relatively little of procyclical worker flows. Instead, all plants in the employment growth distribution increase their...
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Firm-level shocks and labor flows
Carlsson, Mikael; Messina, Julián; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2021
This paper analyzes how labor ows respond to permanent idiosyncratic shifts in rm-level production functions and demand curves using very detailed Swedish micro data. Shocks to rms physical productivity have only modest eects on rm-level employment decisions. In contrast, the paper documents...
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Job and worker flows : new stylized facts for Germany
Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian; Merkl, Christian; … - 2017
We study the relationship between cyclical job and worker flows at the establishment level using the new German AWFP dataset spanning from 1975–2014. We find that worker turnover moves more procyclical than job turnover. This procyclical worker churn takes place along the entire employment...
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Worker churn and employment growth at the establishment level
Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian; Merkl, Christian; … - 2017
We study the relationship between employment growth and worker flows in excess of job flows (churn) at the establishment level using the new German AWFP dataset spanning from 1975-2014. Churn is above 5 percent of employment along the entire employment growth distribution and most pronounced at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737495
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Worker churn and employment growth at the establishment level
Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian; Merkl, Christian; … - 2017
We study the relationship between employment growth and worker flows in excess of job flows (churn) at the establishment level using the new German AWFP dataset spanning from 1975-2014. Churn is above 5 percent of employment along the entire employment growth distribution and most pronounced at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741955