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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010

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, wages and job security of temporary workers

Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis - 2012

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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International fragmentation and relative wages in the UK

Hijzen, Alexander (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Foreign acquisition, plant survival, and employment growth

Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - 2009

This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...

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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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