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composition and wages. We contribute to empirical research on these issues in three ways. First, we provide novel evidence that is … firm characteristics, including size and capital intensity, exporters still pay higher wages and employ more skilled …. -- Heterogeneous firms ; exports ; imports ; wage ; skills ; market heterogeneity …
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This paper addresses the impact of rising international trade exposure on individual earnings profiles in heterogeneous worker-establishment matches. We exploit rich panel data on job biographies of manufacturing workers in Germany, and apply a high-dimensional fixed effects approach to analyze...
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We exploit rich worker-establishment data to trace the impact of rising international trade exposure in the job biographies of roughly 2.4 million manufacturing workers in Germany (1990–2010). To profit from export opportunities, workers respond by increased employer switching within...
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We study the impact of trade exposure in the job biographies, measured with daily accuracy, of 2.4 million workers in Germany. To profit from export opportunities, workers adjust through increased employer switching. Highly skilled workers benefit the most, consistent with an increase in skill...
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This article examines the overall effect of global value chains (GVCs) on labour market outcomes, namely wages and …-least-squares method. The results indicate that GVC position is negatively correlated both with wages and with employment, while the effect …
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dramatic growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced … lead employers to contracting firms. For this end we develop a new method for identifying outsourcing of food, cleaning … associated with outsourcing stem from a loss of firm-specific rents, suggesting that labor cost savings are an important reason …
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Drawing on newly available panel data, this paper presents an empirical analysis of the wage effects of changing job tasks, assessed for individuals at their workplace. I am therefore able to exploit within-occupation within-individual variation, over time, to study wage returns to cognitive,...
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Wage growth is stronger in larger cities, but this relationship holds exclusively for non-manual workers. Using rich German administrative data, I study the heterogeneity in the pecuniary value of big city experience, a measure of dynamic agglomeration economies, and its consequences for the...
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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the … outsourcing tends to increase wages for both unskilled and skilled labor. We use a panel data set of workers in Danish … manufacturing industries to show that domestic and foreign outsourcing affect wages as predicted by the theory. -- outsourcing …
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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the … outsourcing tends to increase wages for both unskilled and skilled labor. We use a panel data set of workers in Danish … manufacturing industries to show that domestic and foreign outsourcing affect wages as predicted by the theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318053