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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...

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Strategic investment and international outsourcing in unionised oligopoly

Leahy, Dermot; Montagna, Catia - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 2, pp. 260-269

intermediate good in-house and outsourcing it to a non-unionised foreign supplier that makes a relationship-specific investment in … developing the intermediate. The paper sheds light on the issue of whether international outsourcing offers a means to ‘escape …’ the power of domestic unions and on the existence of intra-industry wage dispersion. We show that outsourcing typically …

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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - In: European Economic Review 61 (2013) C, pp. 132-152

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the occupational task profile using rich individual-level panel data. Our main results suggest that, when only considering within-industry changes in offshoring, we identify a moderate wage reduction due to offshoring for...

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Boosting export performance in Portugal

Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2015

In the years before the economic crisis, Portugal had low growth, a decline in export competitiveness and rising imbalances that included a large current account deficit and a strong expansion of the non-tradable sector. Strengthening export performance is therefore one of the principal...

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How to boost export performance in Greece

De la Maisonneuve, Christine - 2016

This paper analyses the structure of Greek exports and presents policy recommendations to boost export performance. Despite recent improvements, export performance deteriorated in the last decade particularly in the service sector. The decline in unit labour costs since the beginning of the...

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Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy

Antras, Pol; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Garicano, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and the structure of wages? To study this question we propose a theory of the assignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents specialize in production and more skilled agents...

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Trade Reforms, Labor Regulations and Labor-Demand Elasticities: Empirical Evidence from India

Mitra, Devashish; Hasan, Rana; Ramaswamy, K.V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

Using industry-level data disaggregated by states, this paper finds a positive impact of trade liberalization on labor-demand elasticities in the Indian manufacturing sector. These elasticities turn out to be negatively related to protection levels that vary across industries and over time....

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Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization, and the Skill Premium

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We propose a theory that rising globalization and rising wage inequality are related because trade liberalization raises the demand facing highly competitive skill-intensive firms. In our model, only the lowest-cost firms participate in the global economy exactly along the lines of Melitz...

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Do Developed and Developing Countries Compete Head to Head in High-tech?

Edwards, Lawrence; Lawrence, Robert Zachary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Concerns that (1) growth in developing countries could worsen the US terms of trade and (2) that increased US trade with developing countries will increase US wage inequality both implicitly reflect the assumption that goods produced in the United States and developing countries are close...

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Creating and Connecting US and China Science : Chinese Diaspora and Returnee Researchers

Xie, Qingnan; Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research experience and returned to do their research in China...

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