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The openness to international trade and capital movements of industrialized countries has increased substantially …. Overall, the empirical findings do not indicate that international trade and capital mobility raise income differences in …
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Three features of real-life reforms of dual employment protection legislation (EPL) systems are particularly hard to study through the lens of standard labor-market search models: (i) the excess job turnover implied by dual EPL, (ii) the nonretroactive nature of EPL reforms, and (iii) the...
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This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A novel theoretical mechanism, based on sorting of heterogeneous workers into occupations with task dependent offshoring cost, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to...
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. Whereas trade does not affect the firm-internal assignment of workers to tasks in a setting with fully flexible wages, it … consequences for firm-level productivity, if low-skilled wages are fixed by a minimum wage. In this case, trade leads to higher per …
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firms. Whereas trade does not affect the firm-internal assignment of workers to tasks, it reduces the range of tasks … minimum wage. In this case trade leads to higher per-capita income for both skill types and thus to higher welfare in the open …
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on the volume of intermediate goods trade and the number of varieties produced are mutually reinforcing, resulting in a …
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This paper studies the implications for wage inequality of two distinct forms of globalisation, namely trade and …-ante homogeneous workers, heterogeneous firms and search and matching frictions into a multi-region model of trade and FDI with … interplay between trade, FDI and labour market institutions. …
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This paper explores whether trade can explain a part of the sharp decline in the labor share of Indian formal …. In order to estimate the influence of trade, the mark-up and bargaining power affecting the labor share and resultant …-2014 to regress Solow residual (the proxy for productivity) on trade share along with its interaction terms capturing market …
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speed at which labour market policy coordination has progressed so far. -- Trade Wage subsidies ; policy spill …-overs ; international policy coordination ; unionised labour markets ; trade ; asymmetric labour market institutions …
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-overs ; international policy coordination ; unionised labour markets ; trade ; asymmetric labour market institutions …
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