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Global supply chain (GSC) trade has been a driving force underlying economic transformation, urbanization, and social … shows mixed results. On the one hand, global integration through trade expansion improved the concentration of men and women … manufacturing for GSC trade increased faster than male employment. This trend decreased in turn the male-female sex ratio among …
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Trade and technological change continually alter the workplace and labor-market outcomes, with consequences for economy …-quarter of changes in labor-market outcomes (wage inequality then and manufacturing job losses now) was predicted by trade …
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of trade in productivity growth in a sample of 30 sectors in 25 EU … industries and only to a lower extent result from a shift towards higher productivity activities. Trade is found to be an … associated with efficiency gains, but intermediate good exchange and trade with New Member States exert a particularly strong …
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We look at the detfirminants and consequences of job reallocation in the 22 2-digit sectors of the manufacturing industry in Poland over the period 1993 - 1997. Import competition and competitive market structure (weak concentration) are found to lead to more reallocation. Moreover, more...
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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...
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international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have …
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I investigated whether migration is interrelated with trade, aid and remittances so that any policies that consider … trade, aid and remittances also affect the decision to migrate. We developed and estimated an empirical model of Turkish … and Turkey, the unemployment rates in Germany and Turkey, aid, the trade intensity variable and the ratio of manufacturing …
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We explore the uses of double-calibrated general equilibrium models as a decomposition tool for analysing contributory factors in the growth and increasing wage inequality in an advanced economy (the UK) since 1979. Calibration of a model to start and end years, based upon an assumed functional...
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The aim of this paper is to formalise a two-country model of trade liberalisation and technical change with … production we allow for comparative advantages and study the trade and technology effects within and between sectors on wages and … employment of skilled and low-skilled workers. Technical change together with inter-sectoral trade has distributional …
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I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant … of IT and has strongly contributed to the rise in trade in IT. The growth in IT imports from China is associated with … from the fall in IT prices can be attributed to the trade with China. …
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