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In a North-South product-cycle model, I study the short- and long-run effects on Northern unemployment of (i) trade liberalization, (ii) tighter international patent protection, and (iii) Southern market expansion. Besides production workers, I also consider R&D workers, which is new to the...
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The rapid rise of Chinese exports over the past few decades has raised concerns about manufacturing jobs and internal … regional manufacturing employment between 1995 and 2007. The analysis exploits the cross-regional variation in initial industry … rising Chinese import competition has a negative effect on the share of manufacturing employment in Finnish sub-regions. …
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paper empirically explores a linkage between the shift from permanent to temporary workers in the Japanese manufacturing … sector and economic globalization, using various industry level data. We find that FDI and/or outsourcing tend to encourage … suggests that the impact of these globalization channels is sizable relative to the impact of the Worker Dispatching Act in …
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The central aim of this paper is to assess the effects of economic globalization on the level and volatility of labor … demand for different skill groups in Tunisia. Using a panel dataset covering six manufacturing industries between 1983 and …
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.S. manufacturing employment --- sometimes called the China Syndrome. Flipping the point of view, we examine the impact on China of the …-urban migration. In our main specification, the loss of one U.S. manufacturing job is associated with eight new Chinese manufacturing …
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The paper analyzes the link between firm characteristics and labor market regulation in five Asian economies — Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Viet Nam. Labor market policies and labor standards do not only affects workers, but also influence firms' investment and...
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Brazilian and Chinese manufacturing plants. They find that while in Brazil increased levels of international integration are … Investment Team, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to study the links between globalization …
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largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw … with China contributed to job loss in manufacturing, but also to substantial declines in consumer prices. However, while …
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across industries and countries. For manufacturing industries with strong commercial links with the non-OECD economies, there …
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The paper analyzes the link between firm characteristics and labor market regulation in five Asian economies - Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Viet Nam. Labor market policies and labor standards do not only affects workers, but also influence firms' investment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781138