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Outsourcing and offshoring of business services: how important is ICT?

Abramovsky, Laura; Griffith, Rachel - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2005

This paper considers the impact that technology has on firms' choices over organisational form, in particular whether to produce inhouse or outsource and offshore services, and firms' decision over the location of activity. Technology reduces the transaction and adjustment costs of moving...

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Innovation in China: the rise of Chinese inventors in the production of knowledge

Griffith, Rachel; Miller, Helen - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2011

<p><p>In 2010 China was the world's fourth largest filer of patent applications. This followed a decade of unprecedented increases in investment in skills and Research and Development. If current trends continue China could rank first in the very near future. We provide evidence that the growth in...</p></p>

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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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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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