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A note on the determinants and consequences of outsourcing using German data

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Pahnke, André; … - 2008

measures of outsourcing and examines their determinants and consequences for employment. There are some commonalities in the … correlates of the two measures of outsourcing, as well as agreement on the absence of adverse employment effects across all … between outsourcing and plant closings is predominantly negative, albeit poorly determined. -- Outsourcing ; organizational …

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The structure of collective bargaining and worker representation : change and persistence in the German model

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Bryson, Alex; … - 2011

This paper depicts and examines the decline in collective bargaining coverage in Germany. Using repeat cross-section and longitudinal data from the IAB Establishment Panel, we show the overwhelming importance of behavioral as opposed to compositional change and, for the first time, document...

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Spillovers through backward linkages from multinationals : measurement matters!

Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2009

We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions, namely that (i) multinationals use domestically produced inputs in the same proportion as imported...

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Multinational companies, backward linkages and labour demand elasticities

Görg, Holger; Henry, Michael; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2006

This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals becomes less elastic with respect to the wage if the plant has backward linkages with the local...

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Why do foreign-owned-firms pay more? : the role of on-the-job training

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2002

Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers in both developed and developing countries alike. Although a number of studies have documented and some attempted to explain this stylized fact, the issue...

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Spillovers from foreign firms through worker mobility : an empirical investigation

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2002

While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Our results suggest that firms which...

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