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Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises the skill premium and reduces child labour in developing countries where the adult labour force is sufficiently well educated to attract production activities from abroad that...
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In this paper, we explore the role of trade in differentiated final goods as well offshoring of tasks for inequality …
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equilibrium where input sub-bundles may be traded (offshoring). The model allows for several goods and two fragments, produced … with high-skilled and low-skilled labor. I address wage and welfare effects under flexible wages, and under a minimum wage …. I also explore trade policy implications and compare offshoring to migration …
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that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could … embedded in talented immigrants targeted for innovation …
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within education groups, our theory helps to explain (1) rising wage inequality between groups, and (2) rising wage …
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We study the effect of tenure on earnings instability in Italy using two alternative estimation strategies. First we use a descriptive measure of earnings instability and fixed effects regressions. Second, we develop a formal model of earnings dynamics distinguishing permanent from transitory...
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productive firms in this setting are not only larger and make higher profits but they also have to pay higher wages due to rent … operating profits and hence have to pay higher wages than non-exporters. This exporter wage premium provides a source for losses …
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innovation and patenting activity. Is foreign technological convergence an important source of the recent evolution of the US …
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of offshoring emphasized by Grossman & Rossi-Hansberg (2008) emerges as a vehicle of job creation. Improvements in the … technology of offshoring causes job losses at the extensive margin where ever more tasks are performed abroad, but it also causes … improvements in the technology of offshoring …
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Using a two-factor (labor and capital), two-good (shift-working and non shiftworking commodities) model with two countries (Home and Foreign) which are located in different time zones, we highlight the impact of trade in labor services (via communication networks) on the comparative advantage of...
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