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Job Creation in Global Value Chains: An Assessment for the Period of 2000-2014

Zürcher, Carmen LU (2018) EKHS42 20181
Department of Economic History
Abstract
Globalization has led to the emergence of global value chains (GVCs) and most of the world’s trade is now in intermediate inputs. This has raised questions about employment in GVCs and attracted the interest of researchers and policymakers alike, but is difficult to study empirically. This paper investigates job creation in simple and complex GVCs for 43 economies between 2000 and 2014 on the basis of world input-output tables and a decomposition analysis. GVC activities were found to have grown by an estimated 37.5 million jobs by 2014, approximately the same increase as in traditional international trade employment for the period analyzed. China, Germany and the United States especially seem to have benefited, in terms of both jobs and... (More)
Globalization has led to the emergence of global value chains (GVCs) and most of the world’s trade is now in intermediate inputs. This has raised questions about employment in GVCs and attracted the interest of researchers and policymakers alike, but is difficult to study empirically. This paper investigates job creation in simple and complex GVCs for 43 economies between 2000 and 2014 on the basis of world input-output tables and a decomposition analysis. GVC activities were found to have grown by an estimated 37.5 million jobs by 2014, approximately the same increase as in traditional international trade employment for the period analyzed. China, Germany and the United States especially seem to have benefited, in terms of both jobs and value added. Labor intensity, however, has fallen by half or more for both GVC activities and international trade for all 43 economies. For future studies, new datasets are crucial for a better understanding of the impacts of GVCs on employment. (Less)
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author
Zürcher, Carmen LU
supervisor
organization
course
EKHS42 20181
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Global Value Chains, Job Creation, Input-Output Analysis
language
English
id
8949382
date added to LUP
2018-06-21 13:47:48
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2018-06-21 13:47:48
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  abstract     = {{Globalization has led to the emergence of global value chains (GVCs) and most of the world’s trade is now in intermediate inputs. This has raised questions about employment in GVCs and attracted the interest of researchers and policymakers alike, but is difficult to study empirically. This paper investigates job creation in simple and complex GVCs for 43 economies between 2000 and 2014 on the basis of world input-output tables and a decomposition analysis. GVC activities were found to have grown by an estimated 37.5 million jobs by 2014, approximately the same increase as in traditional international trade employment for the period analyzed. China, Germany and the United States especially seem to have benefited, in terms of both jobs and value added. Labor intensity, however, has fallen by half or more for both GVC activities and international trade for all 43 economies. For future studies, new datasets are crucial for a better understanding of the impacts of GVCs on employment.}},
  author       = {{Zürcher, Carmen}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Job Creation in Global Value Chains: An Assessment for the Period of 2000-2014}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}