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Labor reallocation in response to trade reform

Menezes Filho, Naércio Aquino; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2007

Tracking individual workers across employers and industries after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that foreign import penetration and tariff reductions trigger worker displacements but that neither comparative-advantage industries nor exporters absorb displaced workers for...

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Wage inequality in Germany : disentangling demand and supply effects

Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2009

elasticity of substitution production function and the endogenous labor supply of three different skill types, which enable us to …

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Wages, Skills, and Skill-Biased Technical Change : The Canonical Model Revisited

Bowlus, Audra J.; Robinson, M. Chris; Lochner, Lance; … - 2021

-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive paths for skill-biased technical change (SBTC), and does not account for the … of substitution between high and low skill workers. The estimates suggest greater substitutability across skill and a … SBTC slowed during the early-1990s and under-estimates of the elasticity of substitution between high and low skill workers …

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Techies and Firm Level Productivity

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023

We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by leveraging French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and are associated with...

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Industry-Level Labour Demand Elasticities Across the Eurozone: Will There Be Any Gain After the Pain of Internal Devaluation?

Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2014

In this paper we estimate disaggregated labour demand equations using panel data involving observations across time (1970-2007) for twenty-three industries across eleven euro area countries. By using the EU KLEMS database, which provides data across countries, we provide industry-by-industry...

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Dissecting Between-Plant and Within-Plant Wage Dispersion - Evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel - 2019

Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important drivers of the recent rise in German wage dispersion and pin down the relative contribution of plant and worker characteristics. Moreover, we separately investigate the drivers of...

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Occupation, Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality

Böhm, Michael - 2019

This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall wage inequality. Using long-running administrative panel data with detailed occupation codes, we first document that in all occupations, entrants and leavers earn lower wages...

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Service offshoring and white-collar employment

Crinò, Rosario - 2007

I study the effects of service offshoring on white-collar employment, using highly disaggregated occupational data for the U.S.. I present a structural model of the firm's behavior that allows tractable derivation of labor demand elasticities for highly detailed occupations. I estimate the model...

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Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices

Butikofer, Aline; Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

This paper studies the consequences of the buildup of a new economic sector—the Norwegian petroleum industry—on investment in human capital. We assess both short-term and long-term effects for a broad set of educational margins, by comparing individuals in regions exposed to the new sector...

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Skill-Biased Imports, Skill Acquisition, and Migration

Fan, Jingting; Li, Lei - 2023

Imported capital goods, which embody skill-complementary technologies, can increase the supply of skills in developing countries. Focusing on China and using a shift-share design, we show that city-level capital goods import growth increases the local skill share and that both skill acquisition...

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