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In this paper, we assess the extent of offshoring in the Italian manufacturing industries, and we study how this phenomenon is affecting the skill composition of employment. Measuring offshoring using the import-use matrices of input-output tables, firstly we estimate the impact of offshoring on...
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Growing shares of international trade flows consist of intermediate and unfinished goods shipped from one country to … of international fragmentation of production in Europe, looking at how it affects relative labor demand. Models of trade … change in the relative factor intensities of the affected industries. We use international trade data specifically related to …
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significant gains for liberalization of trade through the World Trade Organization. It is not clear that the reported gains are at … multilateral trade liberalization are very small even in a formal New Keynesian model incorporating economies with significant …
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comes from the use of an index newly constructed using data on trade in parts and components to measure inter …-industry variations in the degree of international vertical specialization (fragmentation intensity of trade). It also employs a … methodology designed to embody peculiarities of Japan's fragmentation trade pattern. While the findings of existing studies are …
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exported. We propose a relative measure of VS-based trade that combines information from Input-Output matrices and … international trade data, producing results for a large sample of individual countries and geographical areas with a detailed … product breakdown over the 1967-2005 period. This measure identifies a country’s trade flow as associated with VS activities …
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Portuguese economy. The empirical trade literature suggests different measures of fragmentation, changing the scope of the … Input-Output matrices together with international trade data and those that look at specific elements of international … transactions, namely trade in parts and components and outward-inward processing trade. In this paper, we survey the different …
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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...
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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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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
main determinant of the increase in the non-manual wage bill share. By contrast, demand changes associated to trade have …
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