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domestic labor force at the sector-level. In order to better elucidate the offshoring employment relationship, this paper … production-side shock that changes firms' offshoring decision can influence the local economy and its labor market. …
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The causality from outsourcing, defined as the procurement of inputs from outside the boundaries of the firm, to … reallocation of resources towards higher value-added activities. The international outsourcing case adds another dimension in the … outsourcing is found to lead to productivity gains, but upon closer inspection it seems that firms? international orientation and …
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In this paper we confirm the existence of improvements of firm productivity when domestic upstream and downstream firms become more internationalized and therefore offshore (import intermediate inputs) and inshore (export final output for intermediate input usage) intensively. Chinaś accession...
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This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
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and non-routine content. -- Tasks ; offshoring ; outsourcing ; skills ; wages …The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very …
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Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This … article contributes to the growing literature that tests empirically whether offshoring does indeed help to improve … productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business services offshoring on productivity growth with industry-level data …
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We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to …
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First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the … studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the …-2005. Moreover, I consider all industries within the economy and take account of both services and materials offshoring. My results …
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We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995-2001 by using an … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …
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We study the relationship between offshoring and the prevalence and intensity of labor market imperfections at the firm …-markdown pricing originating from firms' monopsony power in both countries. Offshoring benefits firms in that imports of final as well … offshoring on wage markdowns arises from an increase in productivity that is only imperfectly passed through into an increase in …
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