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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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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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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 …
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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)....
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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...
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Price of Anarchy in Sequencing Situations and the Impossibility to Coordinate
Hamers, Herbert; Klijn, Flip; Slikker, Marco - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013
Scheduling jobs of decentralized decision makers that are in competition will usually lead to cost inefficiencies. This cost inefficiency is studied using the Price of Anarchy (PoA), i.e., the ratio between the worst Nash equilibrium cost and the cost attained at the centralized optimum. First,...
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Affirmative Action through Minority Reserves: An Experimental Study on School Choice
Klijn, Flip; Pais, Joana; Vorsatz, Marc - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014
Minority reserves are an affirmative action policy proposed by Hafalir et al. (2013) in the context of school choice. We study in the laboratory the effect of minority reserves on the outcomes of two prominent matching mechanisms, the Gale-Shapley and the Top Trading Cycles mechanisms. Our first...
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Intellectual Property Rights and Efficient Firm Organization
Ponzetto, Giacomo - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014
manufacturers where IP rights are weaker, and a switch from integration to outsourcing over the product cycle. Empirical evidence on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775500