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Foreign Direct Investment, Global Value Chains, and Labor Rights : No Race-to-the-Bottom?
McLaren, John; Im, Hyejoon - 2021
In a stylized model of multinational firms choosing host locations for their global value chains, host-country governments choose the strength of collective-bargaining rights that allow their workers to receive a share of the resulting quasi-rents. Each government must trade off the direct...
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Employment effects of joining global production networks : does domestic value added matter?
Wannaphong Durongkaveroj - 2021
Is the emphasis placed in trade and industry policy-making in developing countries on the share of domestic value-added ('value-added ratio') in exports consistent with the objective of achieving economic development through an export-oriented development strategy? This paper examines the...
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Human Capital as a Basis of Comparative Advantage Equations in Services Outsourcing : A Cross Country Comparative Study
Dash, Shailey - 2006
International outsourcing of services has come to occupy an increasingly important part of international trade …. Analytically services outsourcing is the export of services by a country to the outsourcing nation. Given this, the pattern of … essentially constitute outsourcers, and developing nations such as India and China that carryout outsourcing. Different …
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Labor market adjustments after a large import shock : evidence from the German clothing industry and the multi-fibre arrangement
Braakmann, Nils; Wagner, Joachim - 2009
This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
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Labor Market Adjustments after a Large Import Shock : Evidence from the German Clothing Industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
Braakmann, Nils - 2009
This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153171
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Global value chains and wages : international evidence from linked worker-industry data
Parteka, Aleksandra; Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna - 2016
Using a rich dataset on over 110,000 workers from nine European countries and the USA we study the wage response to industry dependence on foreign value added. We estimate a Mincerian wage model augmented with an input-output interindustry linkages measure accounting for task heterogeneity...
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Global Value Chains and Wages : Multi-Country Evidence from Linked Worker-Industry Data
Parteka, Aleksandra - 2018
This paper uses a multi-country microeconomic setting to contribute to the literature on the nexus between production fragmentation and wages. Exploiting a rich dataset on over 110,000 workers from nine Eastern and Western European countries and the United States, we study the relationship...
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Wage differences according to workers' origin: the role of working more upstream in GVCs
Fays, Valentine; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François - 2021
This paper is the first to investigate the role of firm-level upstreamness (i.e. the number of steps before the production of a firm meets final demand) in explaining wage differences according to workers' origin. Using unique linked employer-employee data relative to the Belgian manufacturing...
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Wage differences according to workers' origin : the role of working more upstream in GVCs
Fays, Valentine; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François - 2021
This paper is the first to investigate the role of firm-level upstreamness (i.e. the number of steps before the production of a firm meets final demand) in explaining wage differences according to workers' origin. Using unique linked employer-employee data relative to the Belgian manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012608532
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Global Value Chains in economic development
Herr, Hansjörg; Dünhaupt, Petra - 2019
Global Value Chains (GVCs) started to play an increasing and key role in the global economy from the 1990s on. The market mechanism in GVCs supports industrialisation in the Global South and under certain conditions product and process upgrading. But GVCs do not lead to the catching-up of...
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