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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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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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exporting and growth performance in Kenya using time series data. Despite trade liberalization and export promotion policies …
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rate uncertainty acts like a barrier to trade and modifies a firm's optimal choice in terms of production and pricing. The …
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Trade liberalization is no Pareto-improvement - there are winners (high-skilled) and losers (low-skilled). To … wage tax, a payroll tax, or a profit tax. Using a Melitz-type model of international trade with unionized labour markets …-defined threshold, the trade gains will be completely destroyed. (iii) UB financed by a profit tax reduce the unemployment rate of the …
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Trade liberalization is no Pareto-improvement - there are winners (high-skilled) and losers (low-skilled). To … wage tax, a payroll tax, or a profit tax. Using a Melitz-type model of international trade with unionized labor markets and … heterogeneous workers we show that: (i) there is a threshold level of UB where all trade gains are destroyed, (ii) this threshold …
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How does a redistribution of trade gains affect welfare when income inequality matters? To answer this question, we …
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Do international trade and technological change influence how firms create incentives for human capital? I present a … trade liberalizations and skill-biased technological change alter the way how the largest firms in an economy incentivize … to trade or when production becomes more I.T. intensive. …
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Do international trade and technological change influence how firms create incentives for human capital? I present a … trade liberalizations and skill-biased technological change alter the way how the largest firms in an economy incentivize … to trade or when production becomes more I.T. intensive. …
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Trade liberalization is no Pareto-improvement - there are winners (high-skilled) and losers (low-skilled). To … wage tax, a payroll tax, or a profit tax. Using a Melitz-type model of international trade with unionized labour markets …-defined threshold, the trade gains will be completely destroyed. (iii) UB financed by a profit tax reduce the unemployment rate of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009672613