Browsing Research documents by Author "Rose Skaksen, Jan"
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Does Economic Self-Interest MatterMunch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan; Schroll, Sanne; Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper, we re-examine the role of economic self-interest in shaping people’s attitudes towards immigration, using data from the European Social Survey 2002/2003. Compared to the existing literature, there are two main contributions of the present paper. First, we develop a more powerful test of the hypothesis that a positive relationship between education and attitudes towards immigration reflects economic self-interest in the labour market. Second, we develop an alternative and more direct test of whether economic self-interest matters for people’s attitudes towards immigration. We find that while the "original" relationship between education and attitudes found in the literature is unlikely to reflect economic self-interest, there is considerable evidence of economic self-interest when using the more direct test. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7517 Files in this item: 1
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En analyse baseret på branche- og landeforskelleKromann, Lene; Rose Skaksen, Jan; Sørensen, Anders (, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Formålet med analysen er at udnytte lande- og brancheforskelle i automation, produktivitet og beskæftigelse til at afklare i hvilken udstrækning automation påvirker produktivitet og beskæftigelse. Detaljer omkring analysen findes i: ”Automation, labor productivity and employment – a cross country comparison”. Et hovedresultat er, at arbejdsproduktiviteten i fremstillingssektoren i Danmark kan forøges med ca. 15%, hvis de enkelte brancher indenfor fremstillingssektoren udnytter automation i samme udstrækning, som i de lande, der er mest automatiserede. Det vil på kort sigt også betyde, at beskæftigelsen tendere mod at falde med 7%, men til gengæld vil den vokse med 5% på længere sigt. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8649 Files in this item: 1
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Inference from the Business CycleRose Skaksen, Jan; Sørensen, Anders (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The relative demand for skills has increased considerably in many OECD countries during recent decades. This development is potentially explained by capital-skill complementarity and high growth rates of capital equipment. When production functions are characterized by capital-skill complementarity, relative wages and employment of skilled labor are countercyclical because capital equipment is a quasi- fixed factor in the short run. The exact behavior of the two variables depends on relative wage flexibility. Relative wages are rigid in Denmark, implying that the employment share of skills should be countercyclical. The labor market is competitive in the United States and therefore relative wages of skilled labor are expected to be countercyclical. We find that the business cycle development of the two economies is consistent with capital-skill complementarity. Keywords: capital-skill complementarity, relative wages, business cycle URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7537 Files in this item: 1
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Jacobsen, Jóannes; Rose Skaksen, Jan; Sørensen, Anders (, 2012)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8648 Files in this item: 1
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Rose Skaksen, Jan; Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Aastrup Jensen, Claus (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We set up a theoretical model to analyze the implications of coordination of immigration policies among destination countries. The model contains two types of spill-overs between destination countries: A terms of trade externality and a welfare policy externality. We show that while coordination unambiguously increases welfare of the destination countries, the effects on the level of immigration and on the income distribution of natives are ambiguous. Thus, coordination among destination countries does not necessarily solve the global coordination problem of inoptimally low levels of migration. Coordination, Externalities, Immigration Policy, Spill-overs, Terms of Trade, Welfare. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7698 Files in this item: 1
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Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan; Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper, we propose and test a novel effect of immigration on the wages of native workers. Existing studies have focused on the wage effects that result from changes in the aggregate labour supply in a competitive labour market. We argue that if labour markets are not fully competitive, the use of immigrants may also affect wage formation at the most disaggregate level – the workplace. Using linked employeremployee data, we find that an increased use of workers from less developed countries has a significantly negative effect on the wages of native workers at the workplace – also when controlling for potential endogeneity of the immigrant share using both fixed effects and IV. Additional evidence suggests that this effect works at least partly through a general effect on the wage norm in the firm of hiring employees with poor outside options (the immigrants). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7665 Files in this item: 1
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Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Schroll, Sanne; Rose Skaksen, Jan (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper, we use data from the first two rounds of the European Social Survey to analyze the extent to which differences in average attitudes towards immigration across the EU-15 countries may be explained by differences in socioeconomic characteristics and individually perceived consequences of immigration, using an extension of a decomposition technique developed by Fairlie (2005). We find that despite the significant effects of socioeconomic characteristics on attitudes, differences in the distributions of these characteristics can only explain a modest share of the cross-country variation in average attitudes. A larger part can be explained by differences in perceived consequences of immigration, but the main part is still left unexplained. Apart from providing useful input for policy makers working in the area of immigration policy, this raises a number of questions for further research for which the ESS data can be successfully applied. Attitudes, Immigration, Cross-country differences URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7687 Files in this item: 1
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Er Danskere Specielle?Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan; Schroll, Sanne; Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Denne artikel belyser holdninger til immigration blandt borgere i Danmark og de øvrige EU-15 lande - herunder holdningerne til immigration, der følger af den seneste EU-udvidelse. Det analyseres, hvilke faktorer der ligger til frund for disse holdninger, samt i hvilken udstrækning danskere afviger fra EU-gennemsnittet. Den typiske dansker er lidt mere skeptisk overfor immigration end andre europæere. Danskerne afskiller sig desuden ved, at forholdsvis få forbinder øget immigration med negative konsekvenser for arbejdsmarkedet, men forholdsvis mange forbinder det med højere omkostninger for velfærdsstaten. Når der tages hensyn til opfattelserne af de økonomiske konsekvenser af immigration, kommer Danmark til at fremstå som et væsentligt mere immigrationsskeptisk land, end hvad der kommer til udtryk i de ukorrigerede holdninger. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7564 Files in this item: 1
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Rose Skaksen, Jan; Munch, Jakob Roland (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper studies the link between a firms education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue that firms may escape intence competition in international markets by using high skilled workers to differentiate their products. This story is consistent with our empirical results. Osing a very rich matched worker-firm longitudinal dataset we find that firms with high export intensities pay higher wages. However, an interaction term between export intensity and skill intensity has a positive impact on wages and it absorbs the direct effect of the export intensity. That is, we find an export wage premium, but it accrues to workers in firms with high skill intensities. Keywords: Exports, Wages, Human Capital, Rent Sharing, Matched Worker-Firm Data JEL Classification: J30, F10, I20 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7623 Files in this item: 1
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AnalyserapportHøjbjerg Jacobsen, Rasmus; Junge, Martin; Rose Skaksen, Jan (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: CEBR har i perioden august-november 2011 gennemført et analyseprojekt for Dansk Industri og Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen. Projektet har haft som formål at identificere og præsentere højtuddannede indvandrere i Danmark samt deres bidrag til de offentlige kasser ud fra individdata fra Danmarks Statistik. Undervejs har projektet været fulgt af en følgegruppe bestående af Linda Duncan Wendelboe fra Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen og Claus Aastrup Seidelin fra Dansk Industri, og forfatterne vil gerne takke for mange gode kommentarer og forslag til tidligere udkast. Endvidere takkes Sofie Bødker for god assistance på projektet. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8580 Files in this item: 1
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Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan; Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We propose a complementary approach to analyze the impact of immigration on the wages of native workers. Using linked employer-employee data from Denmark for a relatively long time period (1993-2004), we study the consequences of an increased use of immigrants at the most disaggregate level – the workplace. We find that an increase in the share of workers from less developed countries at the workplace has a signifi cantly negative effect on the wages of natives – also when controlling for potential endogeneity using both fi xed effects and IV. The use of immigrants from more developed countries also appears to be correlated with wages. However, these correlations disappear when controlling for unobserved fi rm and worker characteristics and are thus likely to reflect selection rather than a causal effect of these immigrants. Finally, we find a positive impact on the wages of native workers from having Eastern European co-workers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7638 Files in this item: 1
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Andersen, Torben M.; Rose Skaksen, Jan (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper, we set up a two-country general equilibrium model where trade unions have wage bargaining power. We show that a decrease in trade distortions inducing further product market integration gives rise to specialization gains as well as a labour market reform effect. The implications of the specialization gains are similar to an increase in labour productivity, whereas the labour market reform effect is similar to an increase in the degree of competition in the labour market. Wages, employment and welfare increase as a result of further product market integration. It is interesting to note that the labour market reform effect of product market integration is achieved despite an increase in the wage level. JEL Classification: F15, J30, J50. Keywords: Trade frictions, wage formation, employment, welfare gains. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7655 Files in this item: 1
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Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Rose Skaksen, Jan (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper, we show that the welfare implications of immigration which takes place in upturns, and may be partly reversed in downturns, are very different from the implications of immigration usually found in static models. Abstracting from any gains to capital owners and native workers due to complementarities, we find that (especially temporary) immigration may still benefit native workers in a European type of labour market where minimum wages may bind in downturns. However, in the presence of hiring costs, these effects may be reversed. Thus, promoting temporary immigration schemes may lead to adverse consequences if they also increase the costs of hiring foreign labour. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7700 Files in this item: 1
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Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains arising from an increase in the extent of the market for intermediate goods, domestic outsourcing tends to increase wages for both unskilled and skilled labor. We use a panel data set of workers in Danish manufacturing industries to show that domestic and foreign outsurcing affect wages as predicted by the theory. Keywords: Outsourcing, Comparative advantage, Specialization, Wages. JEL Classification: F16, J31, C23. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7522 Files in this item: 1
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Konsekvenserne for løn og beskæftigelseMunch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan; Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
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Omfang, udvikling og konsekvenserMalchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Rose Skaksen, Jan; Munch, Jakob Roland; Aastrup Jensen, Claus (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
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Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan; Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: While immigration is unlikely to affect the employment of native workers in the long run, employment of immigrants may be associated with significant short-run adjustment costs for native workers as they have to fi nd alternative employment or are temporarily pushed into unemployment. In this paper, we therefore study the impact of immigrants at the workplace on the employment of native co-workers using a rich matched worker-fi rm data set for Denmark. Estimation of a single risk duration model for job spells of native workers shows that job separation rates increase if more immigrants are hired, especially when it comes to immigrants from Eastern Europe and less developed countries (LDCs). Furthermore, in a competing risks duration model, we fi nd that while immigrants from LDCs increase the unemployment risk for native workers, immigrants from Eastern Europe instead increase the job change probability of native workers. Thus, adjustment costs for native workers are more likely in the case where LDC immigrants are hired. Finally, we fi nd that the results only apply for low-skilled native workers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7510 Files in this item: 1
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