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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...

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Jobs and Unemployment in Macroeconomic Theory: A Turbulence Laboratory

Ljungqvist, Lars; Sargent, Thomas J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We use three general equilibrium frameworks with jobs and unemployed workers to study the effects of government mandated unemployment insurance (UI) and employment protection (EP). To illuminate the forces in these models, we study how UI and EP affect outcomes when there is higher 'turbulence'...

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Skills, Labour Costs and Vertically Differentiated Industries: A General Equilibrium Analysis

Lutz, Stefan; Turrini, Alessandro Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

for industry profitability. Although, high wages also appear to be associated with high labour skills and then with … amount of skilled labour. Given an underlying skills distribution, the model determines profits, wages and aggregate income … and welfare. Results show that high net wages due to a low skills endowment in the economy are typically associated with …

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The Low-Skill, Bad-Job Trap

Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

proportion of the workforce is unskilled, firms have little incentive to provide good jobs (requiring high skills and providing … high wages), and if few good jobs are available, workers have little incentive to acquire skills. In this context, the …

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Technology and Changes in Skill Structure: Evidence from an International Panel of Industries

Machin, Steve; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper examines the evidence that rapid upgrading of the skill structure in recent years was driven by technological change. Four countries are examined who have had different wage inequality and unemployment trends – Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. The analysis...

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Can Pay Regulation Kill? Panel Data Evidence on the Effect of Labour Markets on Hospital Performance

Hall, Emma; Propper, Carol; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Labour market regulation can have harmful unintended consequences. In many markets, especially for public sector workers, pay is regulated to be the same for individuals across heterogeneous geographical labour markets. We would predict that this will mean labour supply problems and potential...

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Skills, human capital and the plant productivity gap: UK evidence from matched plant, worker and workforce data

Haskel, Jonathan; Hawkes, Denise; Pereira, Sonia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Using two matched plant level skills and productivity datasets for UK manufacturing we document that (i) more … and (ii) in an accounting sense the skills gap between the firms in the top and bottom deciles of the TFP distribution …

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Winners and losers: A Micro-level Analysis of International Outsourcing and Wages

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilizing a large household panel and combining it with industry level information on industries' outsourcing activities from input-output tables. This approach avoids problems such as aggregation bias, potential...

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The Demand for Coordination

Dessein, Wouter; Santos, Jesus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities, using rules and task guidelines, and ex post coordination, using communication and broad job assignments. It shows that: (i) Task specialization and the division of labour is...

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Unilingual versus Bilingual Education System: A Political Economy Analysis

Ortega, Javier; Tangeraas, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We define an economy composed of two language groups. Value is created through bilateral trade between individuals who can speak the same language. The value of trade increases in each participant's level of education. We compare a bilingual education system, under which the individuals who take...

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