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Offshoring and skill-biased technical change in the context of US protectionism
Agnese, Pablo; Hromcová, Jana - 2019
We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational … skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through … skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall welfare is improved. In a policy exercise we show that, if offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107297
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The impact of foreign outsourcing on wage inequality in US manufacturing : new evidence
Yamashita, Nobuaki - In: Economics letters 107 (2010) 1, pp. 46-48
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003970838
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Occupational tasks and changes in the wage structure
Firpo, Sérgio Pinheiro; Fortin, Nicole Marie; Lemieux, … - 2011
important factor from the 1990s onwards. -- wage inequality ; polarization ; occupational tasks ; offshoring ; RIF-regressions …
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Free trade agreements and offshoring
Douglas, William A. - In: Challenge 61 (2018) 1, pp. 68-84
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The association between immigration and labor market outcomes in the United States
Basso, Gaetano; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375969
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Where to work? : The role of the household in explaining gender differences in labour market outcomes
Dimova, Ralitza (contributor); Gang, Ira N. (contributor);  … - 2006
With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal standing, allowing us to concentrate our attention on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003504665
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Racial discrimination in the US labor market : employment and wage differentials by skill
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Bradley, Jake; Tarasonis, Linas - 2014
In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared … the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they argue that black-white wage and employment gaps are smaller for … prejudice is quantitatively more important than skill differences to explain wage and employment gaps. In the final section of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355697
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Women at work in the pre-Civil War United States: an analysis of unreported family workers
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2020
working on the basis of the self-employment occupation of other relatives in their households. Family workers are classified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242930
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Offshoring and labour market reforms : modelling the German experience
Beissinger, Thomas; Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joël - 2015
explanation is at odds with the sequence of observed facts. We propose and model an alternative scenario in which offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498540
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Unconditional and conditional wage polarization in Europe
Naticchioni, Paolo; Ragusa, Giuseppe; Massari, Riccardo - 2014
This paper investigates the dynamics of the distribution of unconditional and conditional - on technology - wages in Europe, using both industry and individual level data for the period 1995-2007. We find that the unconditional wage distribution shows scant signs of polarization in Europe. On...
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