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models by estimating the wage-premium of a foreign takeover. The technology spillover theory predicts a larger wage growth in …
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models by estimating the wage-premium of a foreign takeover. The technology spillover theory predicts a larger wage growth in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272307
normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …This paper documents earnings dynamics over the life-cycle and income level using a large administrative database from …, there is no evidence of an added-worker effect but government insurance and income pooling can mitigate the pass-through of …
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labor market effects of offshoring. While theory focuses on one-sector or two-sector models, empirical studies exploit … variation in offshoring across a large number of industries, typically including a linear offshoring term in the analysis …. Thereby, these studies implicitly assume a monotonic relationship between offshoring and labor market outcomes and ignore …
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) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring … among entrepreneurs is higher with offshoring than in autarky. All results hold in a model extension with firm-level rent …
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and the offshoring of tasks. At the firm-level, exporting leads to higher wages and employment, while offshoring of … firms restrict employment to keep wages low, resulting in too many firms that are on average too small. Offshoring on the … markets through exporting and through offshoring, and we show that due to monopsonistic competition our model makes sharply …
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selling abroad. Because offshoring requires larger sunk costs than domestic sourcing, some firms decide to offshore only when … between the domestic and the foreign market are greater. In turn, offshoring firms sell greater volumes, display less …
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In this paper, we explore the role of trade in differentiated final goods as well offshoring of tasks for inequality … premium as well as on international inequality measured in income per head. We compare these effects in a world where trade is …
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Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …
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The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the …
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