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Trade and the Skill-Bias - it's Not How Much, But with Whom, You Trade
Dutt, Pushan; Traca, Daniel A. - 2008
This paper tests the hypothesis that an increase in US trade with countries with weak effectiveness in the protection of intellectual property (IP) has expanded the threat of competitive imitation of US firms, and has contributed to the skill deepening of the 1980s. We draw on Thoenig and...
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Offshoring and volatility of demand
Benz, Sebastian; Kohler, Wilhelm; Yalçin, Erdal - 2016
In this paper we explore the role that demand uncertainty plays for the offshoring decision, and the role that … offshoring plays for domestic volatility of employment. Offshoring is modeled as in Antràs & Helpman (2004), but we assume … firm's employment decision in its domestic and offshore production. In this environment, offshoring is driven by …
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Trade, global value chains and wage-income inequality
Lopez Gonzalez, Javier; Kowalski, Przemyslaw; Achard, Pascal - 2015
The rise in global value chain (GVC) participation has coincided with significant changes in the distribution of wage income both within and across countries. This paper sets out to identify the linkages between these phenomena. It shows that GVC participation has a small effect on the...
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Essays on international trade and development
Heid, Benedikt - 2014
This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...
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Trade Agreements and Global Pacts, Trade Deals and China's Trade Incursions (Presentation Slides)
Wind, Serge L. - 2018
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The role of trade and offshoring in the determination of child labour
Cigno, Alessandro; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sabani, Laura - 2015
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period-model of the world economy, we show that trade liberalization may reduce child labour in developing countries where the initial share of skilled workers in the adult workforce – though not as large as in developed countries – is nonetheless...
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The global distribution of routine and non-routine work
Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Schotte, Simone - 2020
Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression-based methodology to predict the country-specific routine task...
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Technology, skills, and globalization : explaining international differences in routine and nonroutine work using survey data
Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Hardy, Wojciech; Du, Yang - 2019
The shift away from manual and routine cognitive work, and towards non-routine cognitive work is a key feature of labor markets. There is no evidence, however, if the relative importance of various tasks differs between workers performing seemingly similar jobs in different countries. We develop...
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Trade, finance and endogenous firm heterogeneity
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino … - 2016 - This draft: March 2016
, built from highly disaggregated US import data. Consistent with the model, financial development increases sales dispersion …
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Trade, foreign investment, and wage inequality in developing countries : exposure to foreign trade raises the skill premium in countries with a large stock of educated workers and...
Cigno, Alessandro - 2015
Liberalization of foreign trade and investment raises the domestic ratio of skilled to unskilled wages (skill premium) if the country has a sufficiently well-educated workforce, but lowers it otherwise. Wide wage inequality is undesirable on equity grounds, especially in poor countries where the...
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