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Services trade and labour market outcomes
Lassmann, Andrea - 2020
This report draws on individual-level and firm-level data to better understand the relationships between services trade and labour market outcomes. It seeks to shed light on how firms benefit from the rise in services trade, which groups of workers are affected the most, how employment and wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312292
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Global value chains and developing country employment : a literature review
Shepherd, Ben - 2013
This paper provides a review of the available literature on global value chains (GVCs) and employment markets in developing countries. Due to the difficulty of observing intra-GVC transactions, there is very little direct empirical work on GVCs and labour markets. However, it is possible to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775455
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Offshoring of services functions and labour market adjustments
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik - 2019
About 40% of employment in manufacturing is in services functions. This paper develops a measure of narrow outsourcing … face from outside IT suppliers. Narrow outsourcing is entered into labour demand functions where labour is broken down on … percentage point increase in narrow local outsourcing of services reduces manufacturing employment in the same services function …
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GVCs, jobs and routine content of occupations
Marcolin, Luca; Miroudot, Sébastien; Squicciarini, … - 2016
-level Trade in Value Added (TiVA) indicators of offshoring and domestic outsourcing. The results suggest that employment in all … observed between the offshoring of inputs and domestic outsourcing with more routine-intensive jobs. Taken together, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582045
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Making Thailand's services sector more competitive through international trade
Suzuki, Kosuke; Ayudhaya, Manasit Choomsai Na; Lenain, … - 2020
Services are an important part of global economic activity and of international trade. Nevertheless, compared to its very large tourism sector, the sector of high-end business services in Thailand remains small. As IT and information, and professional services are traded indirectly through value...
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Making trade work for all
OECD - 2017
Against the background of rising anti-globalisation sentiment, this report argues that, while there are good reasons for some people to be angry, trade is not the root of many problems, nor can it solve them on its own. What is needed is an integrated approach to make the whole system work...
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Trade, employment and structural change : the Australian experience
Thompson, Greg; Murray, Tim; Jomini, Patrick - 2012
International trade produces income gains across the world by facilitating an efficient allocation of production among trading countries. However, increased trade exposure also creates some challenges, and there are adjustment costs associated with changing trade patterns. Effective...
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Going local : a regional perspective on how trade affects labour markets and inequality
Rusticelli, Elena; Haugh, David; Arquie, Axelle; … - 2018
The increase of emerging market economies in international trade and rapid rise in global trade intensity over the past three decades has been accompanied by growing, regionally concentrated, discontent with trade in advanced OECD countries. One of the main concerns is the negative effects of...
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Exploring changes in world production and trade : insights from the 2018 update of OECD's ICIO/TIVA database
Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins; Hewings, Geoffrey; … - 2019
affected by international outsourcing of production. …
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The impact of skill endowments and collective bargaining on knowledgeintensive greenfield FDI
Amoroso, Sara; Dosso, Mafini; Moncada Paternò … - 2015
This paper assesses the contribution of skilled employment and labour market conditions to the ability of attracting knowledge intensive and manufacturing greenfield FDI. We carry out our analysis by controlling for a wide range of labour market features, such as the collective bargaining...
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