Search results for: WORKER HETEROGENEITY

• Global Value Chains and Wages: International Evidence from Linked Worker-Industry Data

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  • A. Parteka
  • J. Wolszczak-Derlacz

  - Year 2016

  Using a rich dataset on over 110,000 workers from nine European countries and the USA we study the wage response to industry dependence on foreign value added. We estimate a Mincerian wage model augmented with an input-output interindustry linkages measure accounting for task heterogeneity across workers. Low and mediumeducated workers and those performing routine tasks experience (little) wage decline due to major dependency of...

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• Workers, Firms and Task Heterogeneity in International Trade Analysis: An Example of Wage Effects of Trade Within GVC.

  Publication

  • A. Parteka
  • J. Wolszczak-Derlacz

  - Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review - Year 2017

  Objective: The main aim of this article is to present how the heterogeneity of workers, firms, and tasks can be incorporated into empirical international trade analysis. In particular, we provide an empirical example in which we aim to quantify the reliance on foreign value added (FVA) within Global Value Chains (GVC) on wages. Research Design & Methods: We estimate a Mincerian wage model augmented with a measure of foreign value...

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