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aggregate Employment for a sample of 45 OECD and G20 countries for the period 1990-2019 after controlling for the effects of … results suggest that a more product-wise concentrated export structure leads to new employment opportunities. In contrast …, geographical diversification of export does not have any impact on overall Employment. The Internet has substitution effects on …
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generated discontinuous changes in U.S. trade ows. We find that the impacts of the export shock on employment, income, and home … net impact of the shock was to raise manufacturing sector employment by 250,000 workers over the decade of the 1970s. …
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factor. Offshoring jobs abroad may change the composition of domestic firms and employment and thus reduce union density …The prevalence of labor unions have declined post-WWII, and this paper examines whether globalization is a contributing …. Alternatively, a firms' ability to offshore may erode the union's bargaining power, decrease the benefits of union membership, and …
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adverse - effects, understanding the difficulties in using it to manage employment is important for economic policy. …
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This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence...
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Over roughly the last ten years, there has been an explosion of scholarship on transnational labour law, as commentators attempt to come to terms with the shifting labour law paradigm in the new economy. Most of the work has filled law review pages. Fortunately, Sir Bob Hepple has led the way in...
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We analyze how globalization affects the allocation of talent across competing teams in large matching markets … Melitz (2003) with competing teams. It also provides new insights on the distributional consequences of globalization, and on …
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who are also engaged in international businesses. We follow workers in local Swedish firms where some experience an … internationalization shock when their firm is acquired by a foreign multinational firm. Matching acquired firms with a group of similar … control firms and applying a stacked difference-in-differences estimation approach, we find that international experience …
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We ask how globalization affects a government's incentives to set labor standards for its workers. In a stylized … with globalization than it would under autarky, because labor standards are a normal good and the general increase in … incomes from globalization increases demand for them. We call this the effect of `globalization in the large.' Second, if more …
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Globalization has increased in recent decades, resulting in structural changes of production and labor demand. This … paper examines how the increased global engagement of firms affects the structure of the workforce. We find that the … aggregate distribution of occupations in Sweden has become more skilled between 1997 and 2013. Moreover, firms with a high …
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