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offshoring and international trade. …
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outsourcing in the Austrian economy over the periods 1995-2000 and 2000-2005. Based on an input-output framework, we apply a … coefficients and final demand components. Outsourcing is modelled as changes in the shares of domestically produced intermediates …
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Relocation is a way of reducing costs, thus increasing competitiveness, by splitting production and services between countries. The main argument kindling the relocation debate suggests that moving abroad generates job losses in the home country, while production and job gains appear only in the...
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How do offshoring and immigration affect the employment of native workers? What kinds of jobs suffer, or benefit, most … looked at the effects of offshoring and immigration separately, we argue that one can gain useful insights by jointly …. Third, we use the model to draw systematic predictions about the effects of immigration and offshoring on native workers and …
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This paper examines the impact of offshoring on labour elasticities for a sample of 40 countries over the period 1995 …-2009 using the recently compiled World Input-Output Database (WIOD). Including measures of narrow and broad offshoring, as well … as indicators of manufacturing and services offshoring, in conditional and unconditional labour demand equations we find …
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In this paper we examine the link between international outsourcing – or offshoring – and the skill structure of labour … cross-industry dimension and split employment into three skill categories. Our results indicate that while offshoring has …
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, while trade in semi-finished products is important for the chemicals industry. As the offshoring decisions are made at … to characteristics of the host and the destination country and the characteristics of the offshoring firms. Section 5 … therefore focuses on the offshoring decisions at the company level it analyses the motives and determinants of company …
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