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Globalization and Employment: Imported Skill BiasedTechnological Change in Developing Countries
Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namelythe relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-basedemployment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863024
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Services Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859492
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Temporary Shocks and Offshoring: The Role ofExternal Economies and Firm Heterogeneity
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to thepresence of externalities …, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanenteffects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in an … industry. Also, the initialadvantage of a country as a potential host for outsourcing activities can create a lock ineffect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862878
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Why Ex(Im)porters Pay More:Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker Panels
Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer-employee data set. We improve on the previous literature (i) by using anew methodology to quantify the contribution of an extensive set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522216
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Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes : Wage Bargaining, Search Frictions, and Firm Heterogeneity
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Prat, Julien; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We introduce search unemployment à la Pissarides into Melitz’ (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms. We allow wages to be individually or collectively bargained and analytically solve for the equilibrium. We find that the selection effect of trade influences labor market outcomes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860638
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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter?Micro-Level Wage Effects of InternationalOutsourcing in Three European Countries
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger; Munch, Jakob Roland - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countrieswith markedly different … labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861172
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Team Incentives:Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-basedincentives remains scarce. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affectproductivity by changing both workers’ effort and team composition. We present evidencefrom a field experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486877
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Speeding Up the Product Cycle:The Role of Host Country Reforms
Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We study the effects of policy reforms in the South on the decisions of intrafirm and arm’slength production transfers by Northern firms. We show theoretically that relaxing ownershipcontrols and improving contract enforcement can induce multinational companies to expandproduct varieties to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522208
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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture
Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet thelevel of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. We show that thesedifferences can be the result of labor market competition if workers have heterogeneouspreferences and preferences are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862582
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Innovation, Employment and Skills inAdvanced and Developing Countries:A Survey of the Literature
Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative andqualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatorypower of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on theissue, with reference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486874