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FDI, skill-specific unemployment, and institutional spillover effects
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2012
This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital markets and Mortensen and Pissarides search frictions in the labor market. Institutional changes in the model trigger adjustments at the intensive and extensive margin of labor demand. At the extensive margin a shift of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307700
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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-37, pp. 1-39
This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital and goods markets. Labor market imperfections in line with Mortensen and Pissarides (Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Theory of Unemployment, 1994) give rise to unemployment and a channel for the government to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310506
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FDI, skill-specific unemployment, and institutional spillover effects
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital markets and Mortensen and Pissarides search frictions in the labor market. Institutional changes in the model trigger adjustments at the intensive and extensive margin of labor demand. At the extensive margin a shift of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416986
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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012), pp. 1-39
This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital and goods markets. Labor market imperfections in line with Mortensen and Pissarides (Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Theory of Unemployment, 1994) give rise to unemployment and a channel for the government to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010981404
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Politics Matter: Changes in Unionization Rates in Rich Countries, 1960-2010
Schmitt, John; Mitukiewicz, Alexandra - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011
Researchers have offered several explanations for the decline in unionization. Many emphasize that “globalization” and … unionization is the inevitable response to the twin forces of globalization and technology, then we would expect unionization rates … to follow a similar path in countries subjected to roughly similar levels of globalization and technology. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364322
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Do we have to be afraid of the future world of work?
Eichhorst, Werner - 2015
There is considerable concern regarding the prospective development of employment levels and job types in the future. The paper tries to highlight major trends shaping the world of work in developed economies with the aim of giving a realistic account of probable developments and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279738
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Do we have to be afraid of the future world of work?
Eichhorst, Werner - 2015
There is considerable concern regarding the prospective development of employment levels and job types in the future. The paper tries to highlight major trends shaping the world of work in developed economies with the aim of giving a realistic account of probable developments and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348256
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The Plurality of Modernity: Decentring Sociology
Costa, Sérgio (contributor);  … - Rainer Hampp Verlag
Starting from two different planes of analysis, this volume contributes to recent debates on the character of contemporary modernity(ies). At the macro-theoretical level, some chapters discuss the bases for a comparative sociology, in an emphatic sense, i.e., a sociology that deals with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771481
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Labor market and globalization : a comparison of the Latin American and the East Asian experiences in the 1980s and 1990s
Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2010
In this paper we analyse the labor market and its relationship with globalization in two groups of countries similar in …. It is argued that the Latin American group adopted pro-globalization policies too quickly and without an adequate social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965145
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Globalization, roundaboutness, and relative wages
Francois, Joseph F.; Grier, Kevin; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2004
We depart from the trade and wages literature and its emphasis on North-South trade, examining North-North by developing the basic linkages between trade-based integration and relative wages in an Ethier-type division of labor model. Using this model we identify a formal relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334843