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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …. Estimating the same specification on different data show that there are some interesting differences in the effect of outsourcing …
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products and firms' use of imports in production (offshoring). We use Finnish worker-firm data merged with product-level trade … occupations. An increase in import competition has larger negative effects than an increase in offshoring. Production workers …
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In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements … of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for production (vs. final goods for consumption); that it involves …
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the routine content in tasks as well as the probability of off-shoring negatively affects the re-employment possibilities …
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"Guest workers" earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify global inefficiencies in the pure spatial allocation of labor between poorer and richer countries. But rigorous estimates are rare, complicated by migrant self-selection. This paper...
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This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) - spread through Bangladesh's labor markets. Although the end of the MFA was arguably exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with...
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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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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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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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