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Export-Magnification Effect of Offshoring
Kleinert, Jörn; Zorell, Nico - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2010
between offshoring and exports. We model a world consisting of many advanced countries that trade differentiated goods among …
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"Servicification of Manufacturing - Evidence from Swedish Firm and Enterprise Group Level Data"
Lodefalk, Magnus - Handelshögskolan, Örebro Universitet - 2010
The manufacturing industry in industrialised countries is often argued to servicify - use and sell more services - but knowledge is poor. We examine the phenomenon using detailed and com-prehensive micro level data at both the firm and enterprise group level for Sweden (1997-2006). We find that...
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Offshoring and Directed Technical Change
Acemoglu, Daron; Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014
We study the short- and long-run implications of offshoring on innovation, technology adoption, wage and income …-abundant West to a skill-scarce East. Profit maximization determines both the extent of offshoring and technological progress …. offshoring induces technical change with an ambiguous factor bias. When the initial level of offshoring is low, an increase in …
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Servification of Manufacturing Firms Makes Divides in Trade Policy-Making Antiquated
Lodefalk, Magnus - Handelshögskolan, Örebro Universitet - 2015
The decline of manufacturing in OECD countries and job implications has been a long-time concern. Recently, policy-makers have set out for reindustrialisation. A trend related to these concerns and aspirations is the servicification of manufacturing – the increase in use, produce and sales of...
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Exploiting the Potential for Services Offshoring: Evidence from German Firms
Eppinger, Peter S. - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2014
Services offshoring is on the rise. Due to recent innovations in communication technologies, many services that used to … over the past decades, indicating under-exploitation of the potential for services offshoring. To understand this … establishes that the level of services offshoring is lower in industries with greater offshoring potentials, as captured by their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011093716
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Offshoring Potential and Employment Dynamics
Boockmann, bernhard - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2014
This study addresses the impact of offshorability (a job characteristic indicating how easily a job can be offshored) on employment changes and worker mobility in Germany. A composite measure of offshorability for German data is used which broadens existing measurements such as Blinder (2009)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011093722
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The Skill Bias of World Trade
Epifani, Paolo; Gancia, Gino - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004
Under plausible assumptions about preferences and technology, the model in this paper suggests that the entire volume of world trade matters for wage inequality. Therefore, trade integration, even among identical countries, is likely to increase the skill premium. Further, we argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547181