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This paper examines the relationship between unemployment and labor market flexibility. The latter is considered in the broadest sense - as it relates to labor markets at large (external flexibility) and to practices within firms (internal flexibility). The first part of the paper addresses the...
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of foreign trade expansion on men and women's employment and earnings in Germany and Japan since the early-1970s. The analysis is prompted by trade studies identifying manufacturing industries appearing most vulnerable to foreign trade,...
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We use factor content analysis to measure the employment effects of manufacturing trade expansion over 1978-1995 compared to a counterfactual of no manufacturing trade expansion for ten OECD countries. We find that trade brought a net "loss" of 3.3 million jobs, 2.0 million of these in the...
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