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Beaton, Kimberly; Cerra, Valerie; Hadzi-Vaskov, Metodij - 2021

This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the … firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import competition on employment, wages, and firm performance, as well as the … wages, investment, and firm profitability. Country characteristics, such as educational attainment, can also improve …

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Understanding U.S. wage dynamics

Abdih, Yasser; Danninger, Stephan - 2018

reinforced and complemented at the micro-economic level. Lower regional unemployment puts an upward pressure on wages of … individuals, although this effect has become weaker since 2008. But there is downward pressure on wages for individuals with … occupations that are exposed to automation and offshoring, and in industries with a higher concentration of large firms. All these …

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Government Employment and Wages and Labor Market Performance

Kontolemis G., Zenon - 1999

, an increase in government wages or benefits reduces private sector employment, and government employment is not an …

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The Endogenous Skill Bias of Technical Change and Inequality in Developing Countries

Behar, Alberto - 2013

This paper draws on existing empirical literature and an original theoretical model to argue that globalization and …

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Returns to Human Capital and Investment in New Technology

Luzio, Rodolfo - 2001

This paper presents a simple framework that illustrates the link between skill-based wage differentiation and human capital acquisition given skill-biased technical progress. The analysis points to the economic costs resulting from labor market and income redistribution policies that prevent the...

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Technological changes, offshoring, and the labor share

Lian, Weicheng - 2019

Existing studies on the downward trend in the labor share of income mostly focus on changes within individual countries. I document, however, that half of the global decline in the labor share of income can be traced to the relocation of activities between countries. I develop a two-country...

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Technological Change, Relative Wages, and Unemployment

Aizenman, Joshua - 1994

This paper examines the effect of skill-biased technological change on the structure of wages, the composition of …

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Is technology widening the gender gap? : automation and the future of female employment

Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla-Norris, Era; Khalid, Salma - 2019

Using individual level data on task composition at work for 30 advanced and emerging economies, we find that women, on average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we relate data on task composition at work to occupation...

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Skills, Wages, and Employment in East and West Germany

Funke, Michael - 1995

, and for unskilled labor. The former result contradicts union claims that wages had little relevance for east German job …

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Rightsizing Brazil's public-sector wage bill

Karpowicz, Izabela; Soto, Mauricio - 2018

wage, and align public sector compensation to private wages in low-skilled professions …

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