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Firms and skills : the evolution of worker sorting

Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015

We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and non-cognitive skills across Swedish firms between 1986 and 2008. The weight of the evidence suggests that the increase in sorting is due to stronger complementarities between worker skills and technology. In...

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Firms and skills : the evolution of worker sorting

Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015

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Globalization and vertical structure : an empirical investigation ; conference paper

Bühler, Stefan; Burghardt, Dirk - 2014

This paper studies the effect of trade facilitation on vertical firm structure using plant-level data from Switzerland. Based on the Business Census and the Input-Output table, we first calculate a binary measure of vertical integration for all plants registered in Switzerland. We then estimate...

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Internationalization and Innovation of Firms: Evidence and Policy

Altomonte, Carlo; Aquilante, Tommaso; Békés, Gábor; … - 2014

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Winners and losers : fragmentation, trade and wages revisited

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2004 - Updated version: March 2004

Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … combining it with industry level information on industries' outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the …

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Räumliche Wirkungen der Globalisierung in Deutschland

Lammers, Konrad - 1999

Die Globalisierung ist ein raumwirtschaftlicher Prozeß. Ursache für diesen Prozeß ist das Sinken räumlicher Transaktionskosten in einem umfassenden Sinne. Dadurch geraten regionale Produzenten einerseits unter Wettbewerbsdruck durch Anbieter aus anderen (Welt-) Regionen, andererseits...

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Global value chain upgrading

Ylömäki, Tobias - 2016

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Cost competition, fragmentation and globalization

Dluhosch, Barbara; Burda, Michael C. - 2000

This paper proposes a model in which the removal of barriers to trade and factor mobility is associated with endogenous fragmentation of the value-added chain. Fragmentation is the outcome of cost competition - the profit-maximizing choice of cost structure by monopolistically competitive firms....

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Fragmentation, globalization and labor markets

Burda, Michael C.; Dluhosch, Barbara - 2000

Fragmentation of the value-added-chain is modeled as the reaction of monopolistically competitive firms to the removal of barriers to trade and factor mobility in an integrated trading environment. Since fragmentation requires high-skilled labor, this form of globalization can induce labor...

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Globalisation and employment in the EU electrical industry : a case study with emphasis on Germany

Diehl, Markus - 2000

The development of production, prices and employment in the EU electrical industry between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s is analysed in order to test the hypothesis that the competitive pressure from low-income countries has led to the observed decline of the employment share of low-skilled...

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