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This paper presents a review of the theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of trade liberalization on the labor markets of developing countries. We discuss models which seek to explain the empirical finding that openness has increased wage inequality in several developing countries.
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GVC involvement—tend to employ more workers, pay higher wages, and employ more skilled workers than firms that deal … internationalised firms tending to hire more workers and pay higher wages in developing economies as well. We also find a positive …
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Using a rich dataset on over 110,000 workers from nine European countries and the USA we study the wage response to industry dependence on foreign value added. We estimate a Mincerian wage model augmented with an input-output interindustry linkages measure accounting for task heterogeneity...
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The absolute gap between skilled and unskilled wages has increased over the years in Korea though the relative gap has … fallen. In this paper we consider two possible explanations of this pattern in wages: international trade and technology. We … apply the price approach to determine the mandated effect of these factors on wages under the assumption of perfect …
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We provide a comprehensive assessment of the effects of new imported inputs on wage dynamics, on the skill-composition of the labor force, on worker mobility, and on the efficiency of matching between firms and workers. We employ matched employer-employee data for Italy, over 1995-2007. We...
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inequality. In order to analyze various effects of OFDI on wages depending on the types of workers, the research classified … also analyzes possible effects on wages that could vary according to the different characteristics of investments by …-intensity and contract type in terms of influences on wages. It also shows that the effect of OFDI on wages is more subject to …
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We provide a comprehensive assessment of the effects of new imported inputs on wage dynamics, on the skill-composition of the labor force, on worker mobility, and on the efficiency of matching between firms and workers. We employ matched employer-employee data for Italy, over 1995-2007. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919236
This paper develops and implements a novel test of the Stolper-Samuelson theorem. We use nationally-representative matched employer-employee panel data from 1997 through 2015 to study the effect of the rise in China's exports on French worker earnings. Our version of the Stolper-Samuelson...
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wages in ten Central and Eastern European countries in the period 2005-2014. We combine GVC measures of global import …-data on workers from EU-SILC. We find that the wages of CEEC workers are higher when their industry is at the beginning of the … associated with lower wages. Higher upstream, this effect is not sustained. …
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outcome variables – labour productivity, employment and wages. In a second step, an illustrative set of changes in trading … European value chains. Labour productivity and wages are negatively affected across most sectors, but the effects are smaller …
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