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Essays in International Trade and La...

Kim, Gueyon.

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Essays in International Trade and Labor Markets.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Essays in International Trade and Labor Markets./
作者:	Kim, Gueyon.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
面頁冊數:	95 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-11A.
標題:	Economics. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13882348
ISBN:	9781392157879

Essays in International Trade and Labor Markets.
Kim, Gueyon.

Essays in International Trade and Labor Markets. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 95 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2019.

This item must not be added to any third party search indexes.

The first two chapters examine the labor market consequences of offshoring. I use the Danish employer-employee matched data together with the newly constructed skill measures to evaluate the effect of offshoring on wages and reallocation of workers within offshorable occupations. Offshoring reduces domestic worker wages; and increases the probability of reallocation away from the high-productivity firms to the low-productivity ones. The least skilled workers further face a greater risk of switching out to a less competitive sector. On the firm-side, offshoring improves the average skill of in-house workers at a lower cost. By estimating a worker-firm matching model, I examine the mechanisms of how offshoring affects labor market inequality and further assess the quantitative importance of various competing hypotheses such as technological change and the expansion of higher education, in comparison to offshoring. I find substantially different effects: technology mainly increases the inequality between firms in terms of worker skill quality and average wages, while offshoring mitigates this rising trend.The last chapter examines the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on entrepreneurship in developing countries. I build a North-South framework with heterogeneous agents making occupation choices (entrepreneur or worker) where market entry as an entrepreneur requires collecting market information using ICT. Innovations in the technology that relies less on time and more on capital generate asymmetric effects across economies due to differences in factor prices. I show that the marginal entrepreneurs in the South become workers as the most efficient northern entrepreneurs become multinationals hiring southern workers. ICT advancements, which lower the cost of collecting market information for northern entrepreneurs, further amplify this effect while the magnitude is mitigated as wages adjust in each economy. Through efficient reallocation of agents, the quality of entrepreneurs improves in the South; however, the aggregate output produced in the economy decreases due to a lower share of entrepreneurs.

ISBN: 9781392157879Subjects--Topical Terms:

517137
Economics.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Entrepreneurship

Essays in International Trade and Labor Markets.
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