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International trade and job polarization : evidence at the worker level

Keller, Wolfgang; Utar, Hâle - 2023

We employ employer-employee matched data from Denmark and utilize plausibly exogenous variation in the rise of import competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising import competition has led to reduced employment in...

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Trade induced skill upgrading : lessons from the Danish and Portuguese experiences

Gu, Grace Weishi; Malik, Samreen; Pozzoli, Dario; … - 2016

both the average and the standard deviation of skills increase as a result of trade integration. For Portugal we find …

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German robots : the impact of industrial robots on workers

Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens; … - 2017

We study the impact of rising robot exposure on the careers of individual manufacturing workers, and the equilibrium impact across industries and local labor markets in Germany. We find no evidence that robots cause total job losses, but they do affect the composition of aggregate employment....

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Trade-induced skill polarization

Gu, Grace Weishi; Malik, Samreen; Pozzoli, Dario; … - 2018

distribution. The main results for Denmark show that both the average and the standard deviation of skills increase as a result of …

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Trade competition, technology and labour reallocation

Baziki, Selva Bahar; Ginja, Rita; Borota Milicevic, Teodora - 2016

This paper provides new evidence on the reallocation of workers across firms and industries with different technologies in response to increased import competition from developing countries. Using employer-employee matched data for the Swedish manufacturing sector, we find increased assortative...

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Trade competition, technology and labor re-allocation

Bahar Baziki, Selva; Ginja, Rita; Borota Milicevic, Teodora - 2016

This paper studies the changes in labor allocation across firms and industries in response to changes in technology (captured by the adoption of information and communication technologies, ICT) and import competition, due to increased exposure to trade competition from China. We use detailed...

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TBTs, firm organization and labour structure : the effect of technical barriers to trade on skills

Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Fontagné, Lionel; Orefice, … - 2019

Trade shocks in export markets may affect the employment composition and the organization of exporting firms. In particular, the imposition of new technological standards in destination markets may force exporters to adjust the firm's organization to comply and cope with the additional...

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New firms - different jobs? : an inquiry into the quality of employment in start-ups and incumbents

Koch, Andreas; Späth, Jochen - 2009

The present contribution addresses the question whether and how qualitative aspects of employmentlike weekly hours of work, wages or qualificationdiffer between new and established firms. Although a wide strand of literature in entrepreneurship research analyses the employment effects of...

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Productivity gap between tradable and non-tradable industries and duality in higher education

Brezis, Elise S.; Brand, Gilad - 2017

Over the last decades, productivity in the tradable sector rose substantially, while in the non-tradable sector, output per worker has remained the same, despite a similar increase in human capital in both sectors. This paper emphasizes that duality in higher education as well as heterogeneous...

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Skills and earnings : a multidimensional perspective on human capital

Woessmann, Ludger - 2024

The multitude of tasks performed in the labor market requires skills in many dimensions. Traditionally, human capital …, and social skills as three important dimensions of basic skills. Recent advances in text analysis of online job postings … skills and earnings, including the matching of skill supply and demand, will enhance our understanding of the role of human …

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