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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2014
faster task offshoring in sectors exposed to lower labour-market tightness. We discuss policy implications of these findings. …
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Offshoring Tasks, yet Creating Jobs?
Kohler, Wilhelm; Wrona, Jens - CESifo - 2010
of offshoring emphasized by Grossman & Rossi-Hansberg (2008) emerges as a vehicle of job creation. Improvements in the … technology of offshoring causes job losses at the extensive margin where ever more tasks are performed abroad, but it also causes … improvements in the technology of offshoring. …
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Globalization of the automobile industry : Traditional locations under pressure?
Spatz, Julius - 2002
-producers emerged in Asia, Latin America as well as Southern and Central Europe. In addition, the automobile industries of Germany …, Japan and the United States engaged in outsourcing of relatively labor intensive segments of the value chain, especially on … differed considerably between Germany, Japan and the United States. Economic restructuring was least pronounced in the US …
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Ökonomische Effekte eines "Brexit" auf die deutsche und europäische Wirtschaft : aktualisierte Einschätzung im Lichte aktueller Entwicklungen : Studie im Auftrag von Bundesminister...
Flach, Lisandra; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Langhammer, Rolf J.; … - Ifo Zentrum für Außenwirtschaft; Institut für … - 2020
Diese Studie befasst sich mit der Quantifizierung der ökonomischen Auswirkungen des Austritts des Vereinigten Königreichs (VK) aus der Europäischen Union (EU) ("Brexit") auf die deutsche und europäische Wirtschaft. Seit dem Brexit-Referendum vom 23. Juni 2016 herrscht über die Zukunft der...
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Lieferketten in der Zeit nach Corona : Kurzgutachten im Auftrag der IMPULS Stiftung : Endbericht
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Sandkamp, Alexander-Nikolai; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft - 2020
der internationalen Arbeitsteilung getragen. Erschwert Deutschland in Reaktion auf die Coronakrise die Kooperation mit …
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Incomplete Specialization and Offshoring across Europe
Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evžen - CESifo - 2012
Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has … competing with the role of multilateral trade resistance. Our results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe …
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - CESifo - 2011
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278130
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International Trade, Factor Mobility and the Persistence of Cultural-Institutional Diversity
Belloc, Marianna; Bowles, Samuel - CESifo - 2009
Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...
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Globalization, Wage Polarization, and the Unstable Great Ratio
Cozzi, Guido; Impullitti, Giammario - CESifo - 2014
The US labour market has experienced a remarkable polarization in the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, recent empirical work has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the US faced a fast technological catch-up as European...
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Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets
Autor, David; Hanson, Gordon; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition experience significant falls in employment, particularly in manufacturing and among...
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