Guest program
CES Visiting Scholar
Contact
Center for Economic Studies (CES)
Schackstr. 4
80539 Munich, Germany
Phone:
+49 89 2180 2748
Email:
jakob.roland.munch@econ.ku.dk
Website:
Personal Website
Visiting period:
12 - 26 Jun 2024
Country
DK
Summary
Labor Market and Environmental Implications of Globalization
One of Jakob Roland Munch’s ongoing research projects examines the implications of offshoring on unionization rates in the labor market. Unionization rates have been declining in most labor markets over recent decades, but there is no clear consensus about the causes behind this development. Over the same time period, globalization, and offshoring in particular, has increased. The project investigates if offshoring contributes to the decline in unionization by eroding the benefits of being a member of trade unions through improved outside options for firms.
Jakob Roland Munch’s ongoing work also includes a project examining whether increased international trade is good or bad for the environment. Comparative advantages are continuously changing, giving rise to new trade patterns such as increased import competition from China and offshoring of intermediate inputs. The project uses firm-level data from Denmark to evaluate how import competition and offshoring affects firm-level carbon emissions and carbon emission intensities. It also uses data for the carbon content of imports to calculate carbon leakage rates from increased import competition and offshoring.
Jakob Roland Munch’s main research interests are in labor economics, international trade, public economics and environmental economics. He has examined the implications of globalization, offshoring, trade and immigration on labor market outcomes in several papers. He has published articles in journals such as American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Public Economics and Journal of Economic Literature.
Jakob Roland Munch is Professor of Economics at University of Copenhagen. He is also co-chairman of the Danish Economic Councils, a research fellow at IZA and a co-editor at Scandinavian Journal of Economics. He received his PhD in Economics in 2000 from the University of Aarhus.