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Exporters and the rise in wage inequality: Evidence from German linked employer–employee data
Baumgarten, Daniel - In: Journal of International Economics 90 (2013) 1, pp. 201-217
Using a linked employer–employee data set of the German manufacturing sector, this paper analyses the role of exporting establishments in explaining rising wage dispersion both within and between skill groups in the time period 1996 to 2007. A decomposition analysis shows that the strong...
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Exports and Wages: Rent Sharing, Workforce Composition or Returns to Skills?
Macis, Mario; Schivardi, Fabiano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We use linked employer-employee data from Italy to explore the relationship between exports and wages. Our empirical …
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Per Capita Income and the Demand for Skills
Caron, Justin - 2017
wages approaches the issue from the production side of general equilibrium (skill-biased technical change, international …
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Per capita income and the demand for skills
Caron, Justin; Fally, Thibault; Markusen, James R. - 2017
wages approaches the issue from the production side of general equilibrium (skill-biased technical change, international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663526
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Skill Bias, Trade, and Wage Dispersion
Monte, Ferdinando - 2017
Wage ratios between different percentiles of the wage distribution have moved in parallel and then diverged in the U.S. in the last 50 years. In this paper, I study the theoretical response of wage ratios to skill-biased technical change and trade integration. I build a simple model of...
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The twin effects of globalization : evidence from a sample of Indian manufacturing firms
Daveri, Francesco; Manasse, Paolo; Serra, Danila - 2010
Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills and/or may benefit from more rapid careers. Hence, the...
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Exporting, skills and wage inequality
Klein, Michael W.; Moser, Christoph; Urban, Dieter M. - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 25 (2013), pp. 76-85
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The links between internationalization, skills and wages : The role of differences across firms and across partner countries
Serti, Francesco; Tomasi, Chiara; Zanfei, Antonello - 2010
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 … exports, imports or a combination of the two. We show that failing to control for the importing activities may bias upward …
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Short and long-run labor market effects of developing country exports : evidence from Bangladesh
Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo, Diego; … - 2020
This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of … local labor market effects (wages and informality) and estimates from wage equations that reflect the predictions from long … of sector and geography. Wages increased and informality decreased in sub-districts more exposed to the export shock …
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Exporters and wage inequality during the Great Recession : evidence from Germany
Dauth, Wolfgang; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg; Winkler, Erwin - 2015
We analyze the evolution of the exporter wage premium (EWP) during the Great Recession and the resulting impact on wage inequality in Germany. Our results show that the EWP declined sharply between 2007 and 2008 and stagnated afterwards. This pattern is due to exporters starting to adjust their...
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