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Globalization, structural change and innovation in emerging economies : the impact on employment and skills
Vivarelli, Marco - 2018
This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status, with a particular focus devoted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916217
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Immigration policy in integrated national economies
Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000
Migration is an unavoidable aspect of globalization. While full flexibility is politically unfeasible, the paper argues … for regulated openness. Migration in the age of globalization should be judged according to the labor market needs of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336872
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Globalization, government popularity, and the great skill divide and the great skill divide
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Guriev, Sergej; Treisman, Daniel - 2020
globalization renders this question extremely topical. Yet, most previous work has looked for political effects of aggregate trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180469
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The global distribution of routine and non-routine work
Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Schotte, Simone - 2020
Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations … are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression … the dominant provider of non-routine work. In contrast, assuming that occupations are identical around the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239274
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Technology, skills, and globalization : explaining international differences in routine and nonroutine work using survey data
Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Hardy, Wojciech; Du, Yang - 2019
-skill occupations. We estimate the determinants of workers' RTI as a function of technology (computer use), globalization …. Globalization (as measured by sector foreign value-added share) increases RTI in poorer countries but reduces RTI in richer … globalization also important. Technology contributes the most to the differences in RTI among workers in high-skilled occupations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006117
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Cities and tasks
Koster, Hans; Ozgen, Ceren - 2021
This paper explores the relationship between routine-biased technological change and agglomeration economies. Using administrative data from the Netherlands, we first show that in dense areas, jobs are less routine-task intensive (i.e. less repetitive and automatable), meaning that jobs cover a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493781
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Coworker networks and the role of occupations in job finding
Gyetvai, Attila; Zhu, Maria - 2021
Which former coworkers help displaced workers find jobs? We answer this question by studying occupational similarity in job finding networks. Using matched employer-employee data from Hungary, this paper relates the unemployment duration of displaced workers to the employment rate of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012601169
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The impact of globalization and technology transfer on manufacturing employment and skills in Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013
countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied … played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226717
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Automation, globalization and vanishing jobs : a labor market sorting view
Faia, Ester; Laffitte, Sébastien; Mayer, Maximilian; … - 2020
We show, theoretically and empirically, that the effects of technological change associated with automation and offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search frictions hinder efficient assortative matching between firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222391
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Wage differentials and international trade in Italy using individual micro data 1991 - 1996
Falzoni, Anna Maria (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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