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The impact of international outsourcing on the skill structure of employment : empirical evidence from German manufacturing industries
Diehl, Markus - 1999
In recent publications it has been argued that the change of the skill structure of industrial employment is caused by … impact on the skill structure of domestic employment in favor of skilled labor. The empirical evidence for German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475742
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How competitive is Europe's labor?
Siebert, Horst - 1999
Europe’s labor is not competitiveness taking unemployment as the relevant indicator. The paper looks at other indicators such as job creation, productivity and unit labor costs and skills. It analyzes the reasons for the lack of competitiveness including a low degree of wage differentiation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011495318
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Do exporters really pay higher wages? : First evidence from German linked employer-employee data
Schank, Thorsten (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2006
Many plant-level studies find that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. This paper uses a large set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to analyze this exporter wage premium. We show that the wage differential...
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India's macroeconomic policy regime and challenges of employment : some reflections on the manufacturing sector
Jha, Praveen K. - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011886418
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Labor markets in the global economy : how to prevent rising wage gaps and unemployment
Gundlach, Erich; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 1997
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Are immigrants competing with natives in the Italian labour market? : the employment effect
Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014449632
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Labor markets in the global economy : how to prevent rising wage gaps and unemployment
Gundlach, Erich; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 1997
experience of Japan and the United Kingdom points to missing links in the debate on labor market effects of globalization and … skill-biased technological change. In Japan, both unemployment and wage disparities remained low. The contrasting experience …-intensive industries. But the response to this common challenge has different remarkably. Japan has outperformed its major competitors in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451692
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Explaining intra- and intersectoral wage differentials in simple general equilibrium trade models
Spatz, Julius - 2001
The labour markets in the developed countries have experienced two fundamental changes in recent years. Firstly, high-skilled workers have gained at the expense of low-skilled workers, which manifests itself in a rising skill premium and/or a rising disparity in the unemployment rates of these...
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Intra-industry trade, endogenous technological change, wage inequality and welfare
De Santis, Roberto A. - 1999
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