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paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using … instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a …. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller accounting for approximately …
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positive net effect on native employment while offshoring has no effect on it. We also find some evidence that offshoring has …How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation …
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private sector employment. Our analysis suggests that the dramatic decline of the skill premium in Sweden is the result of an …
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than output, while employment shows a persistent decline. This finding has raised doubts concerning the relevance of the … economy, the flexible price RBC model can match the negative conditional correlation between productivity and employment quite …
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This paper examines the implications of labour force growth in one region for wages, employment, and production … linkages between labour force growth in one region and real wage and employment erosion in another are derived. These …
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This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures … efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies that (a)improve employment and welfare, (b)do not raise earnings inequality …
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have been associated with employment cuts. Somewhat surprisingly, firm exits did not contribute significantly to aggregate …
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A significant gap exists in the UK between the employment rate for Ethnic Minorities and that for Whites. From a policy … discriminatory behaviour in the labour market. In this paper, we use administrative data to estimate ethnic differences in employment …
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Our study examines the empirical link between the naturalization of immigrants and their subsequent employment status … particularly true for groups of immigrants who have a low probability of employment in the host country. …
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This Paper studies the impact of wage growth on the evolution of employment in an intertemporal general … is the common growth rate of consumption, demand, and output. In these steady-state equilibria employment contracts at a … equality of wage growth and productivity growth is a condition for constant employment. …
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