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Exporting and labor demand: Micro-level evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 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/10010957768
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Measuring the effect of globalization on labour demand elasticity: An empirical application to OECD countries
Bruno, Giovanni S.F.; Falzoni, Anna M.; Helg, Rodolfo - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2004
labour demand elasticity. Trade might induce an increase in this elasticity via a scale effect due to the increased … find sig-nificant substitution effect of trade on labour demand elasticity only for the U.K. For Italy and France the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087111
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Does exporting create employment? : evidence from Turkish manufacturing
Özsarı, Mustafa; Kılıçaslan, Yılmaz; Töngür, Ünal - In: Central Bank review / Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey 22 (2022) 4, pp. 141-148
Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) with the firm-level production and trade data of Turkish manufacturing industry, this paper … is exploring the employment impact of international trade. The analysis is based on firm level data obtained from Turkish …
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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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Heterogeneous labor demand: sectoral elasticity and trade effects in the U.S., Germany and Sweden.
Judzik, Dario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
computations of the sector elasticity of labor demand, and by evaluating the employment effects of trade in manufactures, services … the aggregate estimate in all three countries. The employment effect of openness to trade is generally positive, although …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204408
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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
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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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Trade and qualification : linking qualification needs to Germany's export flows
Mönnig, Anke; Zika, Gerd; Maier, Tobias - 2013
Foreign markets determine success and failure of those industries that have become reliant on foreign demand, impair the demand for employment and invoke changes in occupational fields and qualification requirements. This paper aims to disclose the direct and indirect influence of major trading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752731
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Trade reform and regional dynamics : evidence from 25 years of Brazilian matched employer-employee data
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - 2015
We empirically study the dynamics of labor market adjustment following the Brazilian trade reform of the 1990s. We use … variation in industry-specific tariff cuts interacted with initial regional industry mix to measure trade-induced local labor … adjustment induced by the trade reform at the regional and individual level. Workers initially employed in harder hit regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507906
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Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics : Evidence from 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Data
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael - 2015
We empirically study the dynamics of labor market adjustment following the Brazilian trade reform of the 1990s. We use … variation in industry-specific tariff cuts interacted with initial regional industry mix to measure trade-induced local labor … adjustment induced by the trade reform at the regional and individual level. Workers initially employed in harder hit regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024344