, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between …-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained chapters which deal with the following topics in empirical international trade and … countries to additionally include informal employment (chapter 3) as well as the relation between foreign direct investment …

Hintergrund erklärt werden kann. Auf dem Arbeitsmarkt können Migranten ihren Bildungsnachteil nicht ausgleichen und haben größere …

simulations to understand how trade affects economic outcomes in the presence of informality. We show the following: 1) Trade … productivity gains from trade are understated when the informal sector is omitted. 3) Trade openness results in large welfare gains … even when informality is repressed. 4) Repressing informality increases productivity but at the expense of employment and …

form results suggest a moderate oil price pass-through channel on wages and nonlabor earnings but not on labor supply and …

disparities including differences of local employment offices, which are assigned to place unemployed job-seekers, are of minor … forcieren. Arbeitslose Frauen schneiden am Arbeitsmarkt vor allem wegen früherer Entscheidungen bezüglich ihrer Berufswahl …, Teilzeitarbeit und ihrer Nähe zum Arbeitsmarkt schlechter ab. Regionale Disparitäten, unter anderem mögliche Vermittlungsunterschiede …

In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in non-standard employment. A … decomposition of the employment rate of full-time workers on permanent contracts reveals that non-standard employment contributes to … employment figures alone. Our econometric analysis shows that the negative wage premia associated with fixed-term employment are …

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model … downward pressure on all wages through domestic skill-task reallocation. If elasticities of task substitution are low (high …), the downward pressure on wages in neighboring skill segments is low (high) with a net effect of higher (lower) wages and …

This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare … 2017 to 2023 using regression-adjusted wages to make sure changes in composition of the workforce do not influence our … employment has been growing by 2 percent in the period 2017-2023, of which 1.8 percent has been due to additional workers finding …