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The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very … on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but far …
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We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic … outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … innovative activity at the plant level. Such a positive effect can also be observed for domestic outsourcing of services, but the …
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We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular …. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to …
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Most contracts that individuals enter into are not written from scratch; rather, they depend upon forms and terms that have been successful in the past. In this paper, we study the structure of form construction contracts published by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). We show that...
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This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand … in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import … factor demands, our main results show that international outsourcing has had a strong negative impact on the demand for …
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international outsourcing. It is the first detailed study to address the effects of outsourcing on labour markets in the UK. In a … recent paper, Feenstra and Hanson (1996) estimate the effect of international outsourcing on wage inequality in the US. This … paper extends the FH approach by using more detailed definitions of outsourcing and skill. The analysis applies to UK …
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This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand … in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import … factor demands, our main results show that international outsourcing has had a strong negative impact on the demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822380
Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with … industry level information on industries’ outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome … fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the …
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This paper presents an empirical analysis of "outsourcing" using establishment level data for UK manufacturing … industries. We analyse an establishment's decision to outsource and the subsequent effects of outsourcing on the establishment …'s productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069041
Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … combining it with industry level information on industries' outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069046