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Labour use and its adjustment in Indian manufacturing industries
Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - 2005
This study provides an empirical investigation of the adjustment process of labour in Indian manufacturing industries …, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The analysis is based on a dynamic model … applied to a panel of 22 two-digit manufacturing industries for the time period of 22 years covering 1980/81 to 2001/02. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267694
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Labour Use and Its Adjustment in Indian Manufacturing Industries
Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This study provides an empirical investigation of the adjustment process of labour in Indian manufacturing industries …, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The analysis is based on a dynamic model … applied to a panel of 22 two-digit manufacturing industries for the time period of 22 years covering 1980/81 to 2001/02. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233871
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Offshoring and job stability: Evidence from Italian manufacturing
Lo Turco, Alessia; Maggioni, Daniela; Picchio, Matteo - 2012
administrative dataset on manufacturing workers. We find that the international fragmentation of production negatively affects job … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282206
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Trade and Manufacturing Jobs in Germany
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2017
The German economy exhibits rising service and declining manufacturing employment. But this decline is much sharper in …. They are not driven by manufacturing workers who smoothly switch to services. The observed shifts are entirely due to young … those labor flows. Exploiting variation across industries and regions, we find that globalization did not speed up the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653197
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Offshoring and Job Stability: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing
Lo Turco, Alessia; Maggioni, Daniela; Picchio, Matteo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
administrative dataset on manufacturing workers. We find that the international fragmentation of production negatively affects job … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279284
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Trade-Induced Adoption of New Work
Kim, Gueyon - 2022
I study the trade-induced restructuring process using a novel measure of new work that captures the firm's demand for jobs employing new knowledge, skills, and technologies. To construct measures of new work, I identify newly emerged job titles using word embedding models. Using both regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351704
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Mending the Gap: Apparel Export Prices and the Gender Wage Gap in Bangladesh
Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo Medeiros, Diego - 2022
Are the wage gains from exports specific to exporting industries, or do they dissipate throughout the economy? In the language of trade theory, are the benefits from exporting industry specific or factor specific? To analyze this question, we study the case of Bangladesh. Bangladesh was the 4th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351950
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New Perspectives on Inequality in Latin America
Fernández, Manuel; Serrano, Gabriela - 2022
Latin American countries have some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. However, earnings inequality significantly changed over the last three decades, increasing during the 1980s and 1990s, declining sharply in the 2000s, and stagnating or even increasing in some countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351976
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International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level
Keller, Wolfgang; Utar, Hale - 2023
We employ employer-employee matched data from Denmark and utilize plausibly exogenous variation in the rise of import competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising import competition has led to reduced employment in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377284
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Exports to Improve Women's Economic Opportunities in Morocco
Roche Rodriguez, Jaime Alfonso; Robertson, Raymond; … - 2023
Morocco's trade liberalization policies coincided with macroeconomic growth over the past two decades. The relationship between trade liberalization and individual-level labor-market outcomes, however, are not well understood. By combining three complementary approaches and modeling techniques,...
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