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global south. The textile and clothing industry is the largest foreign exchange earner and the largest employment provider in …-level activities, size-wise as well as state-wise, thereby creating some sort of inequality. Moreover, we also show that the aggregate … wage bill of export-oriented firms in India actually rose during this period. However, the aggregate state-level wage bill …
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-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …
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employment dynamics in the case of Viet Nam. The econometric analysis consists of two parts. First, data covering formal firms … are exploited to investigate the relationship between sector-level services import intensity and firm-level employment and … services firms, whereas a small negative effect on firm-level employment is observed. For manufacturing firms, there is no …
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-level effect, this paper examines whether OFDI attributes to the wage inequality among each type of workers. Moreover, this study …The purpose of this research is to identify the relation between OFDI (Outward Foreign Direct Investment) and wage … inequality. In order to analyze various effects of OFDI on wages depending on the types of workers, the research classified …
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local labor market effects (wages and informality) and estimates from wage equations that reflect the predictions from long … increase in exports of the female-intensive good, the male-female wage gap closes considerably throughout the country - not …
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Services trade has become increasingly important, yet its impact on employment has been understudied at present. This … employment and wages in the United Kingdom. It finds that firms can benefit from services trade, through increased employment … suggest that services imports enhance female wages more than those of males, thereby contributing to narrow the gender wage …
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empirical results that help distinguishing 'good' from 'bad' jobs in terms of their impact on a worker's lifetime wage income … profile through wage jumps occurring upon changing job ('static effects') or through increases in the wage growth rate … empirical dividing line between employers providing 'good' and 'bad' jobs. First, in internationally active firms the experience-wage …
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empirical results that help distinguishing 'good' from 'bad' jobs in terms of their impact on a worker's lifetime wage income … profile through wage jumps occurring upon changing job ('static effects') or through increases in the wage growth rate … empirical dividing line between employers providing 'good' and 'bad' jobs. First, in internationally active firms the experience-wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249457
This paper assesses the impact of international outsourcing/offshoring practices on the process of wage equalization … across manufacturing sectors in a sample of EU27 economies (1995-2009). We discriminate between heterogeneous wage effects on … integration, so we augment a model of conditional wage convergence through the inclusion of sector-specific broad and narrow …
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paper tests this assertion by estimating the effect of rising import shares on wage shares for 4-digit SIC US manufacturing …
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