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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014
It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238353
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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2013
international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771744
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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Sieglich, Sebastian - 2014
It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250050
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Zukunft der Arbeit und Arbeit der Zukunft in Deutschland
Ochsen, Carsten - 2004
Aufgrund der Tatsache, dass die Arbeitslosenquote Hochqualifizierter in Deutschland in den vergangenen 30 Jahren durchschnittlich 3% betrug, beschäftigt sich dieser Beitrag mit Theorien, die die Heterogenität von Arbeit berücksichtigen. Im Ergebnis kann eine Reduktion der Arbeitskosten die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540775
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Offshoring and relative labor demand from a task perspective
Hogrefe, Jan - 2013
This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A novel theoretical mechanism, based on sorting of heterogeneous workers into occupations with task dependent offshoring cost, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792970
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The impact of globalization and technology transfer on manufacturing employment and skills in Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013
played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226717
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Structural shocks and political participation in the US
Chugunova, Marina; Keller, Klaus; Samila, Sampsa - 2023
This paper examines the impact of the large structural shocks - automation and import competition - on voter turnout during US federal elections from 2000 to 2016. Although the negative income effect of both shocks is comparable, we find that political participation decreases significantly in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496382
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Offshoring, total factor productivity and skill-biased technological change
Akhmetova, Zhanar; Ferguson, Shon - 2015
The paper answers two questions simultaneously. What is the effect of offshoring on firms' total factor productivity? What is the effect of offshoring on skill-biased technological change? We estimate a model of firm production that allows for the effect of offshoring on both total factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283243
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Margins of labor market adjustment to trade
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - 2017
market adjustment following Brazil's early 1990s trade liberalization. We document how workers and regional labor markets … adjust to trade-induced changes in local labor demand, examining various adjustment margins, including earnings and wage …, informal employment, and non-employment. Our results provide insight into the regional labor market effects of trade, and have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688239
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Offshoring and the onshore composition of tasks and skills
Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2009
in wage-bill shares of highly educated workers and measures of non-routine and interactive tasks. -- Trade in tasks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942043