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concerns about the future of U.S. jobs and workers' incomes. However, the current extent of service offshoring is very modest …. Service offshoring is still only a minor part of the international economic competition that the U.S. faces. Service … offshoring appears to have been relatively intense for IT occupations, but the employment and wage trends in those occupations …
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The present volume aims to provide a comprehensive and systemic overview of the challenges that going global poses to knowledge based economies. Its focus is four-fold. 1) Firstly, it investigates why companies, especially high-tech firms, go global, i.e. which are the drivers that push...
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, outsourcing in the North, outsourcing in the South, integrating and outsourcing in the North simultaneously, and integrating in … the North and outsourcing in the South simultaneously, in turn occur with increase of firm-level productivity, as well as …
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outsourcing and to a convergence in corporate cultures across countries. …
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The impact of new technology (ICT) on labour markets and welfare is analyzed in a model of matching. First, ICT lowers cost and speed of market access, thus reducing frictions in matching a searching worker to an opportunity. It raises output and lowers the cost of entry for a new firm. The rise...
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Morocco has made offshoring the number one economic development priority within its “Emergence” program. The government …
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This paper explores the effects of outsourcing on employee well-being through the use of the Finnish linked employer …-employee data. The direct negative effect of outsourcing is attributable to greater job destruction and worker outflow. In terms of … perceived well-being, the winners in international outsourcing are those who are capable of performing interactive tasks (i …
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Over the last three decades, outsourcing has had a big influence on the international division of labour. It is clear … in the export platforms of Asia. However, the influence of outsourcing on innovation capabilities is less clear. Recent … models and outsourcing patterns. The study shows that the adoption of open business models in OECD countries has a major …
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The global innovation map is changing. Until a few years ago innovation activities were concentrated in the US, Europe and Japan. Not anymore. The rising powers of China, India and Brazil are encroaching on the innovation stronghold of the old powers. This report explores how deep the change...
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accumulation in Asia. This research note aims at, firstly, describing basic nature and structure of outsourcing business in Asia …
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