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How international experience helps shape labor market outcomes
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; … - 2022
This paper examines how experience from working in a foreign owned firm affects worker mobility. International experience can provide a worker with knowledge about foreign operations, thereby making them more attractive to other employers who are also engaged in international businesses. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014542156
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Globalization and inequality in Latin America
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - 2023
We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … that focus on distinct aspects of globalization's relationship to inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014564020
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Low-Wage Import Competition, Inflationary Pressure, and Industry Dynamics in Europe
Auer, Raphael; Degen, Kathrin; Fischer, Andreas M. - 2011
What is the impact of import competition from low-wage countries (LWCs) on inflationary pressure in Europe? This paper examines whether labor-intensive exports from emerging Europe, Asia, and other global regions have a uniform impact on producer prices in Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430088
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Global engagement, complex tasks, and the distribution of occupational employment
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; … - 2015
Building on a framework introduced by Chaney and Ossa (2013), we construct a task-based model of the firm's choice of occupational inputs to examine how that choice varies with greater global engagement. We depart from Chaney and Ossa by assuming that more complex tasks are more costly to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442476
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Hit by the Silk Road: How Wage Coordination in Europe Mitigates the China Shock
Barth, Erling; Finseraas, Henning; Kjelsrud, Anders; … - 2020
Coordination in collective wage setting can constrain potential monopoly gains to unions in non-traded-goods industries. Countries with national wage coordination can thus stabilize overall employment against fluctuations and shocks in the world economy. We test this theory by exploring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269937
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China's WTO accession and income inequality in European regions: External pressure and internal adjustments
Kvedaras, Virmantas; Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor - 2020
Exports from China have surged substantially since its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. We investigate how this expansion affected income inequality within European regions by separating the trade pressure experienced in external and domestic markets, as well as exploring the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387296
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Globalization and Imperfect Labor Market Sorting
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2011
industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched worker-firm data from Sweden, we find strong … suggests that there may be significant gains from globalization that have not been identified in the past – globalization may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208585
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Liberalized Trade and Worker-Firm Matching
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2012
Recent theoretical analysis suggests that a reduction in the cost of exporting increases the degree of assortative matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce the cost of imports have an ambiguous impact on matching. We combine detailed Swedish matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208602
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Global Engagement and the Occupational Structure of Firms
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2014
. We examine the effect of globalization on the occupational mix using detailed Swedish data that cover all firms and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208690
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Global Engagement, Complex Tasks, and the Distribution of Occupational Employment
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2015
Building on a framework introduced by Chaney and Ossa (2013), we construct a task-based model of the firm's choice of occupational inputs to examine how that choice varies with greater global engagement. We depart from Chaney and Ossa by assuming that more complex tasks are more costly to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208740