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Employment effects of offshoring, technological change and migration in a group of Western European economies : impact on different occupations
Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2023
This paper estimates conditional demand models to examine the impact of offshoring, technological change, and migration … occupationspecific effects: offshoring seems to have beneficial employment effects for native craft workers in this set of economies … industries) and managers/professionals in manufacturing. Furthermore, there are important distinctions whether offshoring occurs …
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Immigration and offshoring : two forces of globalisation and their impact on employment and the bargaining power of occupational groups
Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2020
impact of immigration and different measures of offshoring on the labour demand and demand elasticities of native workers in … important and occupation-specific direct and indirect effects of immigration and offshoring. Both offshoring - particularly … services offshoring - and immigration have negative direct employment effects on all occupations, but native clerks and manual …
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Developing India's offshore local currency bond market : lessons from emerging countries
Kohli, Renu; Sahoo, Pravakar; Shuheb Khan, M. - 2017
After the 2008 financial crisis, macroeconomic positions and growth prospects weakened in the advanced economies; emerging market economies (EMEs) improved however. Offshore, local-currency bonds of EMEs became popular as result, with many EMEs exploiting the opportunity. India also launched its...
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Creating manufacturing jobs in India : has openness to trade really helped?
Vashisht, Pankaj - 2015
After following inward oriented economic policies for nearly four decades, India opened up to international trade in the early 1990s. Since then, the trade integration of the Indian economy in general and the manufacturing sector in particular has increased phenomenally. Against this backdrop,...
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Value addition, jobs and skills: a study of India's exports
Das, Deb Kusum; Kukreja, Prateek - 2020
Exports serve as an engine of economic growth and can potentially help countries come out of poverty and unemployment. However, as the production process is increasingly getting fragmented globally, greater exports no longer imply higher domestic production, as imports of intermediate products...
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India's GVC integration : an analysis of upgrading efforts and facilitation of lead firms
Ray, Saon; Miglani, Smita - 2020
India presents an unique example of manufacturing capability in most sectors, but low integration into GVCs. This paper examines the reasons for India's low integration into GVCs, especially in the manufacturing sector. It argues that one of the reasons for India's low integration into GVCs is...
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The Chinese are here : firm level analysis of import competition and performance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Darko, Christian K.; Occhiali, Giovanni; Vanino, Enrico - 2018
Recent studies on oil market demonstrate endogeneity of oil price by modeling it as a function of consumption and precautionary demands and producers’ supply. However, studies analysing the effect of oil price uncertainty on investment, do not disentangle uncertainties raised by underlying...
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Assessing the impact of new technologies on wages and labour income shares
Ghodsi, Mahdi; Stehrer, Robert; Barišić, Antea - 2024
This paper advances the literature on the impacts of new technologies on labour markets, focusing on wage and labour income shares. Using a dataset from 32 countries and 38 industries, we analyse the effects of new technologies - proxied by patents, information and communication technology (ICT)...
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Household responses to trade shocks
Irastorza-Fadrique, Aitor; Levell, Peter; Parey, Matthias - 2023
We use large-scale panel data from linked decadal censuses in England and Wales to study the responses of both individuals and their partners to rising Chinese import competition in the 2000s. We test whether partners provide insurance against lost household earnings by increasing labour supply....
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Household responses to trade shocks
Irastorza-Fadrique, Aitor; Levell, Peter; Parey, Matthias - 2024
We study the impact of Chinese import competition in the 2000s on workers and their households in England and Wales. We document both the direct employment changes of individuals affected by trade exposure, as well as the employment response of individuals whose partner is exposed to trade. We...
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